Hank Preston
Network Programmability Evangelist
DevNet
Articles
Introducing the Network Programmability Video Course
One of the things I love about DevNet is our commitment and passion in helping our community of customers, partners, and Cisco employees rapidly learn and adopt the new skills and technologies that are fundamental in this new age of programmability and API driven everything. We’ve long had Le…
Bringing Programmability and NetDevOps to Barcelona for #CLEUR
It’s right around the corner… Cisco Live Europe 2018 in Barcelona, and I absolutely can’t wait! Every Cisco Live I’ve ever been to, or presented at, has been an amazing experience, but Barcelona is going to be in a league of its own. From the moment I arrive in Spain on Fri…
Automating Cisco ACI with Ansible Eliminates Repetitive Day-to-Day Tasks
Guest blog by: Jacob McGill Network Automation Engineer Network to Code Ansible has quickly become a popular platform for network engineers to get started with network automation and eliminate repetitive day to day tasks. There have been Ansible plug-ins (in the form of modules) for Cisco IOS, NX-OS…
With POAP You’ll Never Console into your Nexus Switches Again
Guest blog by: Ajay Chenempara Senior Network Automation Engineer Network to Code If you were to tell your cloud or server admin friends that in this day and age you have to manually configure every switch as you un-box and deploy them, you’ll probably get expressions that range from sympathy…
Part 2: NetDevOps Goes Beyond Infrastructure as Code
Welcome back! In Part 1: Embrace NetDevOps, Say Goodbye to a “Culture of Fear”, I introduced my definition of NetDevOps and talked about how we need to dispel the “Culture of Fear” as we move to NetDevOps. We also considered the two stakeholders of NetDevOps, the builders a…
Part 1: Embrace NetDevOps, Say Goodbye to a “Culture of Fear”
NetDevOps is one of many new terms coming into the IT lexicon as “DevOps” has become widely adopted and lauded as a positive and valuable approach to software development. As the IT industry looks to expand DevOps to other areas, NetDevOps has emerged along with other new terms such as…
Using CLI as Training Wheels with NETCONF/YANG
Just before Cisco Live US, Cisco unveiled “The Network. Intuitive.” and with it is “Introducing an entirely new era of networking.” If you’re like me, you are likely intrigued, and are asking yourself.. “How do I get started?”. A great first place to start i…
DevNet Uncensored @Cisco Live! What happens in Vegas Goes on #CiscoChat
DevNet Zone Cisco Live US 2017 is right around the corner and there is SO much we have planned for the DevNet community, and not just those able to make it in person to Vegas. Nope… One of the things I’m most proud of about working at Cisco and in DevNet, is the large, global community…
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