CI/CD
pyATS Demos Introduction and Setup – NetDevOps Series, Part 12
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…
Get More Done with New IoT Releases on DevNet
Talent and tools define the limits of success for any network deployment – and those leveraging IoT technologies are no different. The IoT world continues to progress at a rapid pace, and developers and network engineers constantly need to learn new skills to keep up with this pace. The need to auto…
Continuous Integration for Docs, Code, Infrastructure, and the Network
I haven’t been to a DeveloperWeek event yet even though one of them is in my home town of Austin Texas. I’m pretty excited to get to go to the Palmer Events Center next week and talk about continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) for developer documentation. I’m giving the 25-minute…
Get Started with Cisco SD-WAN Ansible Pipeline
With my webinar, you can learn how to apply modern agile methods and tools to the deployment of Cisco SD-WAN topologies. Take a step towards NetDevOps by using Ansible and VIRL to build test environments, create infrastructure-as-code, and automate Day 0, Day 1 and Day 2 configurations. If you miss…
Tune in: “Demystifying Cisco Orchestration for Infrastructure as Code”
On October 24th 2019 we will discuss “Demystifying Cisco Orchestration for Infrastructure as Code” on BrightTalk. Register Here. The following blog is a primer for this upcoming webinar. Automating the software development life-cycle DevOps teams are becoming more agile, reducing costs,…
Automating Your Network Operations: Focus on Outcomes
When I started this blog series, I had intended to present a cohesive approach to automating your network operations, eventually leading to DevOps. The intent was to take you beyond simply automating ad-hoc tasks using contrived examples to a more systematic way of automating your network operations…
CI/CD Demo: Intro and Server Setup – NetDevOps Series, Part 7
Previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. This is part 1 of 3, on how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management. Now that you know about some of the most important building blocks for programmability, it is time to see them working together and…
Lifecycle of an Application in CloudCenter With CI/CD (Part 3)
In a previous post we demonstrated how to automate the setup of a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment environment. Now we will demonstrate how to use it: a developer can create an application that will be compiled, then built and deployed into a test environment automatically using this C…
Using CI/CD/CD for Software Lifecycle Automation – DevOps Series, Part 8
If you have been following my DevOps blog series, you know how developers work in their local environment, and how operations teams manage application deployments on public Cloud and on-premises environments. As we’ve discussed, there are many different scenarios where each of the options migh…