Ansible
New DevNet Learning Module, “Home Lab: Setting up Your Desktop OS for Network Programmability”
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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 […]
Ansible and UCS Management Integration
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You can now use Ansible for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS servers, storage, fabric, hyperconverged infrastructure and converged infrastructure as well as Nexus switches.
Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 09: Branson Matheson
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He may or may not have hacked his mom’s cable box when he was a kid, he definitely worked for the Navy as a cryptologist, and he has since worked for NASA, the TSA, and Silent Circle. So Branson Matheson has a lot to say about information security and the desire for online privacy that […]
Extending Ansible Automation to Cisco UCS and Nexus
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Administrators can use now use Ansible as their common tool for configuration management, deployment, and orchestration of Cisco UCS standalone rack servers and Cisco Nexus. Ansible can help you set up infrastructure quickly and easily.
Bringing Consistent Automation Across Cisco Nexus and Catalyst with Ansible 2.1
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We had a busy week around the middle of July with ChefConf 2016 (Austin, Texas July 11 – 13) and Cisco Live US (Las Vegas, Nevada July 10 – 14). Now we’re moving on to AnsibleFest July 28 San Francisco where Cisco is a Gold sponsor as well as a Networking Hub sponsor. I guess […]
Chaos Monkey as a Service and other memorable moments at Velocity Conference
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Last week was quite eventful, certainly unpredictable and some would probably say chaotic. I am a big soccer fan, so with the Copa America and the Euro 2016 tournaments happening, I certainly could scratch that itch. And as always, it is more art than science to predict the results (Iceland winning over England anyone?) and […]
Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack using Ansible
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At the recently concluded OpenStack summit in Austin, I was impressed by the amount of interest shown by attendees on containers. Almost all of the container related sessions were packed as customers are now realizing its advantages. By containerizing applications, you are able to virtualize the host operating system. What this means is that you now create […]
Using Ansible with Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite
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We live in a world of choices and so do our customers. (Ask a bunch of folks which beer they like to drink and you will realize what I am talking about 🙂 ). I have met a lot of customers who are using different orchestration agents in their environments. After hearing about Cisco ONE Enterprise […]
Enabling DevOps Approach with Cisco NX-OS and Ansible
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I blogged back in November 2015 when Cisco participated at the AnsibleFest in San Francisco and the response from the attendees has ranged from “wow you support Ansible”...