Automating your Network Operations, Part 5 – Just the Facts
To come up with a template or model for all your network devices before you automate any of them would delay the benefits of automation.
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Cisco Live EMEA 2019 – Barcelona gears up to host industry’s premier tech. event, second year in a row
A week from now, Cisco Live EMEA 2019 will be ready to sizzle at the Fira Barcelona Gran Via. As a Cisco Live attendee, you benefit from the opportunity to interact with your peers, Cisco staff and partner technical experts in both structured and
Cisco DNA Center Network Automation with Template Programmer API – Part 1
One aspect of automation involves the template programmer, which uses the velocity templating language. Here, we use a template to assign a vlan to an interface on a switch.
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 4 – Dude, Where’s My Data?
If you are relatively new to Ansible, you might have noticed that the playbook examples in my last blog did not have any variables defined in them. Common examples often...
Get Started with the Whole of Branch Provisioning – Virtual and Physical
Learn how to automate branch provisioning of both virtual (ISRv) and physical (Catalyst 9300) devices.
Documenting Network Automation Examples on DevNet Code Exchange
Don't let the lack of concise documentation in open source projects slow down on your network automation journey. DevNet Code Exchange can help.
On-Box Python for Cisco Devices – the Why, What, and How
Network automation with Python is now a major focus. Learn how to use Python scripts hosted on the box and integrated into IOS.
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...
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.