Puppet Labs

June 13, 2016

DATA CENTER

Programmatic Provisioning with Puppet Enterprise, Razor, and Cisco UCS

3 min read

Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical Marketing Engineer The new integration of UCS Manager with Puppet delivers rapid bare metal provisioning all Cisco UCS systems in just a few steps.   Infrastructure as Code Meets Configuration Automation Cisco UCS systems were designed from their beginning over seven ago to provide best in class software-defined infrastructure.  Every […]

November 9, 2015

TECHWISETV

Network Automation for DevOps

2 min read

Network automation is an integral part of the overall infrastructure automation. Yet, it has been largely left out of the DevOps movement.

October 6, 2015

DATA CENTER

Experience Day 0, 1, 2 and N Operations @ PuppetConf

1 min read

Craig Huitema blogged about Cisco’s SDN strategy and one of the key pillars is programmable networks. Cisco’s programmable networks is based on Nexus operating system NX-OS and our Robb Boyd from TechWiseTV covers it here and goes in more depth about NX-API REST (Object model) here and here. Also go here if you missed our […]

August 6, 2015

DATA CENTER

The Puppet Labs Integration With NX-OS Is Here

1 min read

As we continue our journey of openness that is summarized by ZK Research: Cisco’s Data Center Strategy is Built on Openness, we announced the Open NX-OS at Cisco Live San Diego in June 2015 that runs on Nexus 3K and Nexus 9K platforms. The Open NX-OS extensibility supports: Object store and model-driven NX-API enhancements. NX-API […]

October 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 4 – Application Policies for DevOps

3 min read

[Note: This is the last installment of a four-part series on the OpFlex protocol in Cisco ACI, how it enables an application-centric policy model, and why other SDN protocols do not.  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3] As noted earlier in this series, modern DevOps applications such as Puppet, Chef, and CFEngine have […]