Ansible

September 26, 2018

DEVELOPER

Automating Your Network Operations, Part 2 – Data Models

Before I get into data models, I want to take a slight diversion to incorporate some of the feedback that I received from the first blog. It was pointed out...

September 24, 2018

DEVELOPER

From DevNet Create to Ansible Contributor

Originally built for software provisioning and configuration management Ansible has spread into many other technologies, including networking and compute hardware.

September 5, 2018

DEVELOPER

Automating Your Network Operations, Part 1 – Ansible Basics

New blog series gets you beyond the hype and simple demonstrations, and lets you dive more deeply into how and why to automate your network operations.

June 20, 2018

DATA CENTER

Scaling to PB within Minutes – The Road to Full Automation for Scale-Out Storage with Cisco UCS

Building Scale-Out Storage solutions can be now fully automated to reduce the overall amount of work and to easily scale software-defined storage environments within minutes. Partners and customers can begin to leverage this capability using Ansible modules and playbooks for UCS Manager.

May 9, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered: The Automation Episode, feat. Alex Peay and Mike Place

Are you automating the right things and using the right tools in your company? This week on Cloud Unfiltered, Alex Peay and Mike Place of SaltStack talk about automation.

April 12, 2018

DATA CENTER

ACI loves KVM and Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization provides a powerful solution for modern data centers. Additional ACI integrations for network and security automation can dramatically simplify DC operations and application provisioning.

January 26, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 33: Shannon McFarland

Are we all comfortable with the term “multicloud” yet? Used to be that we just had “the cloud,” then “public and private clouds,” then “hybrid cloud,” and now it seems...

December 13, 2017

DEVELOPER

Automating Cisco ACI with Ansible Eliminates Repetitive Day-to-Day Tasks

Jacob McGill is a network automation engineer at Network to Code, a network automation solutions provider that provides network automation training and professional services. He spends his time helping customers automate their networks using tools including like Python and Ansible. Jacob is also an Ansible developer who's written and contributed to many of the ACI modules that were released in 2.4. Feel free to reach out to Jacob at jacob@networktocode.com

October 23, 2017

DEVELOPER

New DevNet Learning Module, “Home Lab: Setting up Your Desktop OS for Network Programmability”

Hey, you networkers out there. (Yes, it’s a little weird – I’m talking to networkers in a blog post at a site where a lot of Developers hang out.) Remember the short struggle when you first learned about Cisco devices? What cable to use to connect to the console? What drivers to add to make […]