CI/CD Pipeline

Twitch channel live stream demos on infrastructure automation get you hands-on with real life use cases. You'll learn how to use Cisco technologies and APIs, as well as third party tools and products, to apply automation and programmability concepts in your own workflows.

Part 1 looked at how to use Gitlab CE as a foundational component for a CI/CD pipeline. Part 2, left off at having a GitLab CE and runner installation running in Docker containers. Now, in Part 3, you learn how to define the CI/CD pipeline components in GitLab.

In part 2 of this series, you're ready to install GitLab CE (Community Edition) - a complete DevOps platform that has all the critical features needed in the software development lifecycle.

Learn how to use Gitlab CE as a foundational component for a CI/CD pipeline to manage and configure a simple CML simulated network.

Learn how infrastructure developers can utilize the standard pull request (PR) to perform Terraform actions (plan, apply) and drive infrastructure automation at the drop of a git push.

Learn about the key areas to consider when it comes to DevSecOps and CI/CD, so you can make tailored selections of the security features that best match the type of CI/CD pipeline you’ve chosen.

With IaC as a focus area of network agility and innovation, we are committed to ensuring that the network lives up to the expectations of seamless connectivity and intuitive operations in an ever-changing application landscape. The new innovations that we are announcing here today are a giant leap in this direction.

Infrastructure-as-data guarantees that your automation process is easily repeatable and will likely provide consistent results in terms of performance and reliability.