John McDonough

I Don’t Like Sushi I don’t like sushi, and yes, I have tried it, and yes, I have tried it more than once. In fact, I have tried sushi several times, each time with the same result, I don’t like it. However, now each time I try sushi at the insistence of someone who exclaims “oh this is the best sush…

The Certification! The “Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist – Data Center Automation and Programmability” certification validates your knowledge of implementing data center automated solutions. Earning the certification is a great way to add solid quantifiable skills and knowledge to your person…

On October 3rd I’ll be presenting a live webinar in which I’ll show how to automate application configuration and policy deployment with Ansible. Register now.  Application Deployment Applications deployment is more than just loading the application onto some compute resources and starti…

A Great Time to be Computing The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) has never been better, which is a strange thing to say about something that has always been great! Recent debuts of the M5 architecture, the 6454 Fabric Interconnect, the C480 ML, and the multi-node C4200 along with the rock-solid…

I told some friends recently about my upcoming trip to Melbourne Australia for Cisco Live 2019 and their reactions were all very similar… “How can you be on a plane so long?!” “I would go crazy!” “No way you would get me on that plane!” “I cannot even think about it, stop talking…” That last comme…

Most Sessions EVER in the DevNet Zone It is incredible how many Data Center sessions there are planned in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live Barcelona. How incredible? How about over 40 hours of Data Center sessions! That means you could attend a Data Center Session, Workshop or DevNet Breakout for every…

Ansible Contribution and You Ansible is a great tool. While originally built for software provisioning and configuration management Ansible has spread into so many other technologies, for example, networking and compute hardware. Ansible’s Domain Specific Language written in YAML makes it an easy to…

A co-worker sent me some infrastructure code to check out and get my opinion. The code was fine, but it was a lot of code… I mean a lot of code. Looking at the thousands of lines of purpose written code I started thinking that there could be a better way. The code was Python and used the UCS Python…

What’s Up at Cisco Live Barcelona? You know it…I know it…automation is happening in the data center. So…are you ready to feel the code? I am, and I’m really excited about the line-up of sessions and hands-on workshops coming the DevNet Zone this month at Cisco Live in Barcelona, Spain. S…