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A Day In the Life of a Modern Applications Developer – DevOps Series, Part 3
Welcome back! If you followed my previous posts you are really fluent on Docker and Kubernetes, so now let’s put that knowledge into practice! The Life of a DevOps Team Have you heard about DevOps from multiple sources and still don’t have a clear idea what it really is? Would you like to create a r…
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…
Managing Containers Made Easy with Kubernetes – DevOps Series, Part 2
If you followed my previous post you are now quite familiar with how Docker containers work. But we just covered the way to work with them manually. When you go into production environments you quickly realize manual management is not really a viable option. There are multiple reasons to avoid manua…
How to Deploy a UCS Manager Environment with Far Less Python Code
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…
Application and Cloud Developers “Connect to Create” at DevNet Create 2018
DevNet Create – Cisco’s annual conference for application developers, cloud developers, and DevOps pros – is right around the corner (April 10-11 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California). DevNet Create is a great opportunity to meet face-to-face with experts from across the indus…
If You’re Not Familiar with Containers, You’re Missing Out on Something Big – DevOps Series, Part 1
Containers are the basis for so many modern applications that you cannot really ignore them anymore. If you are not familiar with them you are missing out on something big. Something useful to overcome many limitations suffered by legacy monolithic applications. And something real that the community…
Application Developers Who Leverage the Programmable Network Will Have a Leg Up in the Coming Industry Transformation
DevNet Create is right around the corner again! This 2-day conference is unique in the industry. It is 100% focused on the innovative outcomes that can be delivered by coders when their applications are aware of and integrated to the physical infrastructure all around us. If you are a traditional so…
How Braga, Portugal Is Using IoT and Cisco DevNet to Become a Smart City
Digital transformations are everywhere around us – innovative uses of digital technology that generate real improvements for people. I often wonder about the story behind the transformation. How did they figure out the right technology to use, and the right partners? This is the story behind the st…
Why is Cisco Teaching Me Python?
At a recent network programmability workshop one of the attendees asked, “Why is Cisco teaching me Python?” I was leading a workshop for a group of senior network engineers at a large financial company that was organized and sponsored by a member of their cloud leadership team. This made the worksh…