devops

Over the past few years, we have seen the rapid growth and maturity of tools and platforms that enable operations teams and software developers to deliver important outcomes for their businesses.  From the explosive growth of services in the public cloud, to a plethora of open source automation…

Have you ever yelled at your computer or phone because a web page was loading too slowly? You’re not alone. According to a recent survey titled “The App Attention Index,” 44% of people have sworn or cursed out loud due to frustration with their digital experience. That’s because applications have tr…

Customers have embraced or are on the path to embrace the DevOps model to accelerate application deployment and achieve higher efficiency in operating their data centers as well as public cloud deployments. This arises from the fact that infrastructure needs to change and respond faster than ever to…

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…

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.…

Our team is headed to San Diego, November 18-21, for what will be our seventh KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference! This is a unique event, ​bringing ​together ​leading technologists from the open source community to further the advancement of Kubernetes and cloud native computing. We’ll be joining o…

Like most “traditional” networkers, I am on a personal journey to become a NetDevOps engineer. This journey took a turn for me in early 2017, when I became a Cisco Live presenter for the first time. My colleague Kevin Kuhls invited me to join him in presenting a DevNet Workshop: “NetDevOps for Netwo…