Stuart Clark
Network Automation Developer
DevNet UK
Articles
Plan, Test, Deploy: The Best Ways to Prevent Network Outages
Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. Chances are, if you are in engineering, you have been involved in an outage at some stage in your career – be this your current role or a former role. No one likes the unexpected wake-up calls at 01…
New XR Programmability Learning Labs and Sandbox Let You Explore
Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. Turning team focus to network automation and programmability I came from a network service provider background. Then, when I starting working at Cisco, I was working on the Cisco Security network team. Th…
Python Scripting APIs in Cisco DNA Center Let You Improve Effectiveness
Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs & sandbox Just before I left for Cisco Live US, I was given the chance to work with the APIs on Cisco DNA Center. Having never used Cisco DNA Center this was a quick learning curve, but once I started I could see…
Exploring Nornir, the Python Automation Framework
This blog contributed by Patrick Ogenstad. Patrick works at Conscia Netsafe, a Cisco Gold partner in Sweden. He also writes about automation and development on his blog Networklore A while back a client asked me, “I’m guessing you are pretty good at Python multiprocessing?” I assumed that hi…
Render your first network configuration template using Python and Jinja2
We all know how painful it is to enter the same text in to the CLI, to program the same network VLANs, over, and over, and over and over, and over…. We also know a better way that exists, with network programmability, but this solution could be a few years out before your company adopts the newest n…
Csilla Bessenyei Discusses Network Automation and Personal Gain
Guest blog by: Csilla Bessenyei Network Automation Engineer Dozens of new articles are getting published about network automation or NetDevOps every week. There are more open source projects, tools, frameworks, SDN architectures, initiatives, and vendor solutions than I can count on my fingers and t…
Continuous Integration and Deployment for the Network
The requisite for Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline being used in the network is growing. Continuous Integration and deployment helps counteract inaccuracies in daily network deployments and changes, hence is critically required. The upshot for change release and automated netwo…
How Sharing Automation Scripts Helps More Teams Take Advantage of the Network
Network automation is not just for the engineers who configure and run the networks. When you write code to be run on your network hardware, consider that some of it will help others in their roles too. With network automation, new or service upgrade deployments can be done to expand capacity, or ad…
Beginning the Adventure at Cisco Devnet
This month I started as a member of the Cisco DevNet team as a Network Automation Developer!!! I will be contributing now to Cisco DevNet learning labs, blogging, and working with all things network automation at Cisco. A bit of history about me to start with here. I have been a network engineer for…
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