Hank Preston

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You know that movie about dreaming within a dream within another dream? Well, that kind of inception world is what I think about whenever I take one of the Cisco Learning Courses to learn something I need to know to work on the platform that hosts those same courses. It blows my mind every time! […]

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Want to explore new ways to apply network automation skills to real world network operations and engineering activities? Register to attend Hank's session at DevNet Create.

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Are you a network engineer turning network automation engineer? Join the DevNet Associate Prep Program for completely FREE access to materials and webinars to take your skills to the next level.

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Do you have a question about network programming or NetDevOps? Why not "Ask Hank?" In this blog, let's try to demystify RESTCONF use for everyone.

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Both Cisco NSO and NetBox offer robust APIs and well formatted data models. See how to keep the device inventory in your Cisco NSO servers accurate based on your NetBox based Source of Truth.

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Cisco Modeling Labs is a great tool for learning all aspects of networking, including automation. Hank discusses options for making the setup and management of your lab topology fast, easy, and automated.

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DevNet's Hank Preston digs into another user's question related to model driven programmability. Do you have a question about network automation? You can Ask Hank!

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Which YANG model to use for your project? Ask Hank takes a look at your options, and how model driven programmability is a foundational technology for the automation engineer.

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Hank's back to answer another question from the community. This time we use automation to associate ARP data, MAC addresses, and network interfaces.

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Got a network automation question? Ask Hank. Here, a network engineer wants to understand how the URLs for RESTCONF are constructed from the YANG models, and how to use the feature for updating IP addresses.

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October 13th, DevNet Create 2020 goes virtual, and goes global with three regional programs featuring use cases, showing code, and innovations relevant to your region.

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Network configuration pipelines can be a complex maze of forks and paths that require special timing, and keys. The current network configuration pipeline needs to go, and be completely replaced in NetDevOps.

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NetDevOps is one of many new terms coming into the IT lexicon as “DevOps” has become widely adopted and lauded as a positive and valuable approach to software development.  As the  IT industry looks to expand DevOps to other areas, NetDevOps has emerged along with other new terms such as “ChatOps”, “SecDevOps” and even “NoOps”. […]

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Introducing an entirely new era of networking

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NetDevOps Live! episodes in April were fantastic, looking at Ansible, GitLab, Batfish and HashiCorp. Get ready for May's amazing line-up, with shows on Postman, NetBox, and ELK!

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Take a look at what we've got in store for Season 3 of NetDevOps Live! — powerful tooling available that every NetDevOps engineer can use in their tool chest: Batfish, Postman, HashiCorp, Ansible Network Automation, NetBox and more!

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Learn what a Source of Truth is, and see how DevNet Sandbox uses Netbox to drive network automation!

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Part 2 video looks at the development process, and walks you through the 4 steps in service creation.