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I am so excited. Just today I’ve started working in a new role around infrastructure programmability and NetDevOps.  But how did this happen to a classic network engineer? And why is this relevant to you? Please come with me on this 20-year trip! Background info In my previous life I worked fo…

Developer portals are a complicated endeavor. Not only do you have to reach out to super technical, detail-oriented audiences, but you also need to make the journey and experience meaningful. Plus, the business reasons for developer portals are many, and varied. All these factors add up to a possibl…

New Developer Offers for SD-WAN, AWS Hybrid Cloud, Meraki, and Collaboration When I first joined Cisco, I learned that we had a secret weapon…our amazing partner community. Our partners build, manage, and operate mission critical infrastructures for our customers around the world. One of the g…

Earlier blogs have covered PnP use cases for simple deployments of a single switch.  This blog covers the design and automated deployment of a complete branch infrastructure. There will be no need to connect to the Command Line Interface (CLI) of any device. Topology In this example, Enterprise Netw…

It’s no secret that one of the biggest challenges network engineers face when they embark on the network automation journey is the lack of concise documentation in open source projects. In many cases, I find myself digging through the code of projects to understand how to use it (therefore my…

As a junior network engineer at a university I wrote a lot of management scripts in Perl.  I had scripts to do things such as check switchport configurations and upgrade switch code. Times have changed a lot since then. The university’s web server now runs in the cloud, rather than on my personal wo…

I like Cisco Chats because they give us an opportunity to connect with our global Developer Community. It’s a time for Cisco programmability experts to share helpful information that can guide you in your new or ongoing projects. Our next #DevNet #CiscoChat is about Partner success! November 1, 2018…

How encoding and transport of the data-model gives you power and flexibility In the first blog, I attempted to make the point that the declarative approach of using function-specific modules in Ansible is not scalable. In the second blog, I introduced data models into the conversation to help organi…

Webex Teams REST APIs and SDKs are easy to use on their own, but you can super-charge your collaboration integration project by leveraging this growing collection of community generated code, libraries, tools and links lovingly curated in the “Awesome Webex” repo on the DevNet Code Excha…