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October 23, 2017

DEVELOPER

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

5 min read

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 […]

August 22, 2017

DEVELOPER

How a Traditional Network Engineer Got Started with Network Programmability

4 min read

When I was asked to write my experiences preparing to present in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live 2017, the first thought that came to mind was,...

August 7, 2017

DEVELOPER

Learning Python on IOS-XE…turning anxiety to excitement

3 min read

CLI programming skills are still relevant in IOS XE, but adding a Linux container with Python natively embedded in release 16.5 takes programmable networks to the next level. With another Cisco Live fading in the rear-view mirror, I find myself reflecting on some of the really interesting events that happened. I’m not talking about the customer […]

August 2, 2017

DEVELOPER

The New Network – It’s for Developers!

6 min read

With Open IOS XE, Cisco is Changing the Game Old-school network engineers probably remember the Cisco 2500-series router. It ran a slow Motorola 68000 CPU, the monolithic IOS operating system,...

July 17, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

PyREBox, a Python scriptable Reverse Engineering sandbox

1 min read

This post was authored by Xabier Ugarte Pedrero In Talos, we are continuously trying to improve our research and threat intelligence capabilities. As a consequence, we not only leverage standard tools for analysis, but we also focus our efforts on innovation, developing our own technology to overcome new challenges. Also, Talos has traditionally supported open-source […]

June 5, 2017

DATA CENTER

Ansible and UCS Management Integration

3 min read

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.

May 1, 2017

NETWORKING

Defining Network Programmability

4 min read

As a set of tools and best practices to deploy, manage and troubleshoot network devices, network programmability delivers time and cost savings, reduction of human error, customization and innovation.

November 14, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Programmability

2 min read

Infrastructure automation, continuous deployment and efficient operations require programmable infrastructure. Developers want to treat physical infrastructure the way they treat other application services, using processes that automatically provision or change infrastructure resources. Your operations staff needs to provision, configure, and monitor physical and virtual resources. This allows them to automate routine activities and rapidly isolate […]

May 9, 2016

DATA CENTER

Programmability and UCS Management

4 min read

Cisco UCS was architected as a programmable infrastructure from its inception.