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Julio Gomez

Programmability Lead, EMEAR

Systems Engineers

CCIE #9302 (active) and AWS Architect, he leads Programmability in EMEAR, helping Systems Engineers in the region drive automation and innovation using Cisco APIs. He is a 19-year Cisco veteran spending most of his life working on the technical side of Data Center, Cloud and Service Provider spaces.

He has worked on pre-sales for Service Providers such as Telefonica, Orange, Vodafone or O2. Deeply technical he is interested in all-things programmability, with a special interest on Cloud technologies and how they are shaping the future of the industry.

Articles

November 7, 2019

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Kubernetes the Easy Way – DevOps Series, Part 14

3 min read

Learn about k3s, an easy-to-install, lightweight but fully-compliant, kubernetes distribution optimized for ARM architectures.

October 17, 2019

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It’s All About Visibility – DevOps Series, Part 13

2 min read

See how to interface with kubernetes API and graphically display how its constructs relate to each other and the underlying infrastructure.

July 29, 2019

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CI/CD Demo: Pipelines Are Amazing! – NetDevOps Series, Part 9

7 min read

See how a completely automated CI/CD pipeline can be applied to a network configuration environment end-to-end, including test and production environments.

July 15, 2019

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CI/CD Demo: Setting Your Local Environment – NetDevOps Series, Part 8

6 min read

This is part 2 of the CI/CD Demo, on how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management.

June 27, 2019

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CI/CD Demo: Intro and Server Setup – NetDevOps Series, Part 7

5 min read

NetDevOps will deliver consistent version-controlled infrastructure configurations, deployed with parallel and automated provisioning.

June 19, 2019

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A Cisco CCIE Discusses His Journey with Network Automation

10 min read

Cisco is at the forefront of enabling Development and Operations teams to work together through its technology.

June 13, 2019

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Applying DevOps to Your Network – NetDevOps Series, Part 6

5 min read

DevOps principles are not exclusive to software development, and some of them can definitely be applied to infrastructure configuration.

June 6, 2019

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Coding Essentials III – NetDevOps Series, Part 5

5 min read

APIs and programming languages like Python and REST have matured to the point of being useful and applicable to the domains of infrastructure engineers.

May 30, 2019

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Coding Essentials II – NetDevOps Series, Part 4

3 min read

Now that we understand data models and data transfer formats, we need to consider what protocol to use in order to exchange that information. NETCONF and RESTCONF.

May 23, 2019

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Coding Essentials I – NetDevOps Series, Part 3

5 min read

Explore some of the coding essentials required to be a successful network automation programmer. Learn more about YANG data models, JSON, and XML.

April 24, 2019

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Developing Like a Boss – DevOps Series, Part 12

4 min read

In a constantly changing ecosystem of DevOps tools, it is hard to keep up with new solutions. And it’s even harder to be genuinely impressed by something new.

May 14, 2019

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Programmability and Coding – NetDevOps Series, Part 2

5 min read

If you want your computer to talk to your infrastructure and do something, you will need a machine-to-machine interface or API (Application Programming Interface).

April 30, 2019

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The Need for Network Programmability – NetDevOps Series, Part 1

3 min read

In order to accommodate requirements from application developers, network infrastructure needs to be faster, more flexible, and cost-optimized.

April 2, 2019

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#CiscoChat LIVE: Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge 2019

2 min read

The Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge is designed to drive awareness and adoption of Cisco Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) across our global partner community.

February 13, 2019

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Learning to Discover, Contain, and Combat a Zero-Day Attack!

2 min read

DevNet Express Event gets attendees hands-on with Cisco Security APIs - Firepower, Threat Grid, Advanced Malware Protection for endpoints, and Identity Services.

November 14, 2018

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How DevOps Changed My (Work) Life

6 min read

A new world of opportunities was opening in front of me! I wanted to learn all this stuff on DevOps, network programmability. I got addicted.

September 10, 2018

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How a Service Mesh Helps Your Modern Applications – DevOps Series, Part 11

2 min read

Istio helps DevOps teams implement modern, microservices-based applications with containers, run them at scale, and integrates beautifully with Kubernetes.

July 25, 2018

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Testing Locally Like You Were on a Remote Environment – DevOps Series, Part 10

4 min read

See how you can do live testing of a service locally, while connected to a remote k8s cluster.

July 10, 2018

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Hide the Complexity of Building/Deploying your Applications on Kubernetes – DevOps Series, Part 9

3 min read

Learn how a tool like "Draft" hides the complexity of building images, and deploying them into a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster. So you can focus on your code.

June 20, 2018

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Using CI/CD/CD for Software Lifecycle Automation – DevOps Series, Part 8

1 min read

New DevNet Learning Lab shows you how to create a pipeline for your modern, microservices-based applications. See automation working on your own software changes.

May 30, 2018

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Fast and Furious (and Easy) Kubernetes Deployments – DevOps Series, Part 7

4 min read

Managing application life-cycle can get really complex when working with microservices. Helm is a tool that packages required microservices, and makes it easier to start/stop them as per required dependencies.

May 24, 2018

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On-Prem vs. Public Cloud Deployments Differences & Similarities – DevOps Series, Part 6

2 min read

There are differences and similarities between on-prem and Cloud deployments, and you can leverage common knowledge in both environments.

May 16, 2018

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How to Leverage a Public Cloud for Microservices-based Application Deployment – DevOps Series, Part 5

2 min read

New DevNet Learning Lab shows you how to set your environment, connectivity, and how to deploy a modern microservices-based application into a public Cloud environment.

May 2, 2018

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Unveiling the Magic Behind On-premises Infrastructure – DevOps Series, Part 4

2 min read

Once developers feel comfortable with their code, Ops needs to think about how it will go into the production environment -- on-premises (private) or in the Cloud (public)?

April 17, 2018

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A Day In the Life of a Modern Applications Developer – DevOps Series, Part 3

4 min read

Wouldn't it be nice to have developers and network operators (Dev and Ops) working together to alleviate issues and accelerate the introduction of new software capabilities in your applications?

April 4, 2018

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Managing Containers Made Easy with Kubernetes – DevOps Series, Part 2

3 min read

Kubernetes (aka: k8s) is the de facto standard for managing all aspects of your application containers. It can scale up to the biggest deployments or down to a cluster of Raspberry Pi.

March 22, 2018

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If You’re Not Familiar with Containers, You’re Missing Out on Something Big – DevOps Series, Part 1

2 min read

With containers, developers can package their applications with the required dependencies and versioned libraries, so Operations teams can deploy them in multiple different environments with no change at all.