Julio Gomez

Hello everyone and welcome back to our NetDevOps blog series. Starting with this post I will cover one of the most interesting building blocks we used in our CI/CD demo: pyATS & Genie. It is used internally at Cisco to test new software versions / products, and now it is also available for free…

Every year, on the weekend before CiscoLive Europe we organize a DevNet Express for those passionate customers and partners willing to spend Saturday and Sunday with us. It’s two full days on how to get started for a specific product set of APIs… from scratch. As an attendee you get to listen, learn…

Demo overview If you read my previous blog post your demo environment is now completely set up and includes the following main components: 1 central headend router where partner extranet VPN connections from remote devices are terminated 4 remote partner routers (partner1, partner2, partner3, partn…

In previous blogs in the NetDevOps Series we explored the most important building blocks for programmability and seeing how to apply DevOps automation principles to Network configuration with CI/CD workflows. It is now time to see how you can use APIs to build more business-relevant solutions that h…

It has become a tradition. Every year, on the weekend before Cisco Live Europe, we organize a weekend of fun and APIs for our dear EMEAR customers and partners. Yes, you read it right… a weekend; two full days! And I know what you are thinking: “Who in their right mind would spend their…

That banana-sized cluster we built in Part 4 of this DevOps series is so cool that you might be interested in maybe taking it with you on the road? And although bringing it on holiday with your family is definitely not recommended, there might be other occasions when having your cluster with you cou…

If you have been following this DevOps series you might remember that cool banana-sized kubernetes cluster we built in Part 4 with some Raspberry Pi boards. It was a great way to build a fully functional setup from scratch and also learn a lot in the process. However, since then things have evolved.…

If you have gone through my DevOps series, by now you have used kubernetes to deploy a number of pods, services, volumes and namespaces, spread across a number of servers in your cluster. Of course you can use the kubernetes CLI to understand the mapping among these multiple elements, but sometimes…

This is part 3 of how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management. Previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. In the last two posts we have setup our server and local environments. So, it is now time to look at the actual demonstration on the power…