The integration of Cisco Intersight and Ansible by Red Hat provides a software-defined approach to the management of the entire hardware and software stack. This solution delivers some significant benefits.
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.
See how Ansible Runner as a Service (ARaaS) provides Ansible integration to non-python projects, and a means of programmatically run playbooks where the Ansible engine is running on a separate host or container.
See how Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools provide a quick way to orchestrate configuration across one or more domains.
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.
Infrastructure as Code can be a wide and complex topic, especially when bridging between public cloud and on-premises resources. DevNet’s website is designed for all levels of users and can provide you with resources to help you today and in your future automation endeavors.
Learn the basics of using HashiCorp’s Terraform to apply configuration changes to a REST-driven network controller. And how to use Ansible to build a generic set of configurations across multiple device types to baseline device configuration compliance.
Terraform or Ansible? Which is the best infrastructure-as-code tool for your environment? Or, can you use both together to take advantage of their unique strengths and purpose?
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!
