Ravi Balakrishnan

With applications transitioning into the cloud, businesses need to automate infrastructure and application deployment in order to stay ahead of the game. F5 and Cisco make programmability and automation inherent parts of operational IT processes, and Ansible provides BIG-IP and ACI users a simple, yet powerful, multi-tier automation and orchestration platform.

Getting the best understanding possible of deployment options is certainly the key to successful technology deployments. So spending the time and visualizing, in advance, the benefits of our rich integration between BIG-IP and ACI collaboration is the latest positive evolution we can bring you.

Debugging a network issue can be daunting, involving 100's of IP addresses spread across your entire deployment. Imagine having a tool that can get all the information you want from an IP address with a click of a button. The F5 ACI ServiceCenter is designed to do exactly that, and more.

HashiCorp and Cisco are lighting the way to Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) with Cisco ACI and Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS), accelerating application delivery by automating networking related tasks.

This blog will focus on automation support by BIG-IP and Cisco ACI and how automation tools, specifically Ansible, can be used to automate different use cases

When dealing with the Cisco ACI environment you may have wondered about using an Application-Centric Design or a Network-Centric Design. Both are valid designs, and you can read more on this topic in this blog.

Cisco and F5 collaborated and successfully announced the F5 ACI ServiceCenter App, a multi-function and operations focused solution, covering its key L2-L7 operational use-cases.

F5 CIS and Cisco ACI together offer unified control, visibility, security, and application services, for both container and non-container workload. The solution offers a seamless developer experience intended to maintain the simplicity of Kubernetes while still enabling advanced capabilities within the Cisco ACI fabric, and maintaining application availability, security, and visibility across the infrastructure.

Use PBR functionality on the Cisco ACI fabric to direct return traffic from the application servers back to the BIG-IP. This will help in having to avoid to re-write your application or to make changes to your BIG-IP configuration and still achieve a symmetry traffic flow with minimal changes.

Cisco Network Assurance Engine (NAE), a key pillar in Cisco’s Intent based networking, is built on a strong foundation of open APIs that has enabled a broad ecosystem of partner-integrated solutions for automated, closed-loop incident resolution use cases. One such marquee solution features Cisco NAE with ITSM leader ServiceNow that boasts hundreds of customer deployments across the globe. Cisco IT on its own is a stellar example of such deployments.

With the growing complexity of the modern network, automation is becoming more important. NETCONF is one of the widely adopted protocols by networking vendors and customers among all programming interfaces. Alongside NETCONF, YANG provides a powerful, standardized modeling language to complement the NETCONF protocol. In practice, interoperability between service orchestrator and network devices provides flexible mix-and-match solutions based on customer's deployment choice.

Infrastructure-as-data guarantees that your automation process is easily repeatable and will likely provide consistent results in terms of performance and reliability.

From definition to deployment, application services could define networking and security requirements at the infrastructure layer, in an automated and fully synchronized way. Learn about the Consul App for Cisco ACI and join us on December 9 for our webinar, Redefining the Intelligent Network with Cisco ACI and HashiCorp Consul.

Cisco is a Digital Innovator sponsor this year at ONUG Fall 2020 virtual event. Prepare to connect, ask questions and gain a better understanding of how to successfully deploy, connect, secure, and operate the Cloud Native Enterprise.

Don't miss the Cisco Innovations showcase at the HashiConf Digital 2020 conference, a series of lightening talks where Cisco SMEs discuss innovative joint solutions brought to you by Cisco and HashiCorp.

Cisco Live US 2020, Cisco’s first-ever and largest digital event, was a super success, with over 124,000 viewers from across the globe. Take a quick tour of key Data Center Networking highlights from the Cisco Live broadcast and DevNet Day.

The combination of Dell EMC PowerStore systems and Cisco MDS 9000 enables the scale, performance, visibility and operational excellence needed for efficient deployment of all your next-generation workloads.

Cisco is continuing its global commitment to help customers and partners navigate an evolving landscape with the introduction of a new Business Resiliency Program.

Learn how Cisco ACI and Red Hat Ansible can help you embrace the DevOps model and accelerate ACI Deployment.

Learn how Cisco ACI and Hashicorp Terraform can help you increase productivity while reducing risks for your organization by managing infrastructure as code.

A week from now, Cisco Live EMEA 2020 will be ready to sizzle at the Fira Barcelona Gran Via. From a Cisco Data Center standpoint, Cisco ACI, NX-OS, and NAE technologies and DevNet continue to grab the headlines.

Cisco DevNet was the talk of the town in Cancun during Oct 26-31, the week of Cisco Live LATAM. What drives this excitement with DevNet? Find out...

Cisco-Splunk partnership is growing at a terrific pace. Recently, Splunk showcased Cisco as one of its top 4 partners. As a testimony to our growing momentum, Cisco is a Peta sponsor this year at Splunk .conf19, Venetian sands, Las Vegas, Oct 21-25.

Cisco ACI and its object model enables customers to integrate network deployment into management and monitoring tools, and deploy new workloads programmatically.

Join Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, and Engineering leaders David Goeckeler and Amy Chang as they share Cisco’s vision for the future and how innovation will transform our industry and businesses.

See what Cisco has planned for Citrix Synergy 2019. Highlights include demos featuring HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud,  Cisco ACI and Citrix ADC for Multi Cloud, and Workspace of the future.

Cisco and ServiceNow have been co-innovating on operations-focused apps to address diverse use cases in dependency mapping, incident management, and visibility - all on show during Knowledge 2019.