In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Tim Swanson (@tiswanso) and Nigel Kersten (@nigelkersten) discuss NXOS and Puppet, and the Cisco/Puppet plug-ins created for configuring network switches. What does this mean? Watch and see. Hint: it ends in unicorns. **The next Engineers Unplugged shoot is at EMC World, Las Vegas, May 2014! Contact me now […]
Ansible can be used with CML (Cisco Modeling Labs) to automate the deployment and management of network infrastructure, offering reproducibility, consistency, and automation in network infrastructure management.
Part 1 looked at how to use Gitlab CE as a foundational component for a CI/CD pipeline. Part 2, left off at having a GitLab CE and runner installation running in Docker containers. Now, in Part 3, you learn how to define the CI/CD pipeline components in GitLab.
Increase your NetDevOps knowledge. The new Learning Track helps you understand datacenter fabric automation with DataCenter Network Manager (DCNM). You’ll become familiar with DCNM, explore the APIs, and then use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling to perform typical fabric operations.
The new Nexus Cloud environmental monitoring API enables network administrators to monitor and optimize the power consumption and efficiency of their on-premise data center networking elements.
All of Cisco’s Cloud Networking products support automation using both Ansible and Terraform. Automating infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD deployment helps in many ways: logging changes in the infrastructure, automating the workflow and eliminating outages or failures due to faulty configuration changes.
Nexus Dashboard Insights is a powerful correlation engine with intelligence derived from machine learning that speeds time to recovery for a wide variety of data center network issues.
Check out the many new use cases that have been submitted to the DevNet Automation Exchange – learn to walk, run, and fly with network automation.
Read how your team can acquire and retain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to successfully implement your network automation initiatives.
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