VIRL

September 11, 2019

DEVELOPER

Preparing to Automate a New Data Center for DevNet Sandbox

DevNet Sandbox provides engineers and developers access to Cisco, partner, and open source infrastructure, and software as a service from the cloud.

September 13, 2018

DEVELOPER

Plan, Test, Deploy: The Best Ways to Prevent Network Outages

New CI/CD tools help you ensure that changes to the network changes have a much higher rate of success.

June 28, 2018

DEVELOPER

virl up – NetDevOps Network Simulation Done Right

With "virlutils" NetDevOps engineers get a CLI tool for managing network simulations. A DevNet blog, sandbox, and video show you how to get started

October 26, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

Using Cisco VIRL with Additional Components

One of the things we tend to do as networking people is test configurations to see if things work the way we think they will. Case in point, I just had a talk with a fellow Champion, Teren Bryson (@someclown) and he was telling me how he used VIRL to prove a concept to a […]

May 5, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

So You Want to be a Network Engineer. Here’s Where You Should Start!

First lets talk about what a Network Engineer is. According to The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Retrieved April 27, 2015, from Dictionary.com website a Network Engineer is: “A high-level LAN /WAN technician who plans, implements and supports network solutions between multiple platforms. A network engineer installs and maintains local area network hardware and software, […]

February 3, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 4. VIRL

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll be talking with Cisco Distinguished Engineer Joel Obstfeld about VIRL. Our Cisco Champion guest hosts are Brad Haynes and Scott Morris. Listen to the Podcast. Learn about the Cisco Champions Program HERE. See a list of all #CiscoChampion Radio podcasts HERE. Cisco […]

IPv6 in the Cisco Live World of Solutions

Just recently I wrote about the IPv6 enabled logo program here at the Cisco Live 2014 World of Solutions (WoS). It is now time to share some of the...

February 7, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Get Inspired by Cisco Live Europe 2014

Cisco Live Europe 2014 (Milan) just ended and I think I will need a few days to reorganize my ideas. It was my first opportunity to attend #CLEUR, and...

VIRL Saves the Day!

One of the themes of my posts is that the overall ONE strategy, including virtualisation, would create an environment for network systems development that would meet the expectations of systems developers accustomed to the “enterprise” style of software development. An enterprise systems developer expects the required systems resources for software development to be readily available […]