devops

We’ve all been there. Fired up our online banking app only to get a server error. Tried to buy something online but the app times out before we can complete the process. Attempted to download an online catalog only to have the image loading stall. Customers today have high expectations for how apps…

If you have gone through my DevOps series, by now you have used kubernetes to deploy a number of pods, services, volumes and namespaces, spread across a number of servers in your cluster. Of course you can use the kubernetes CLI to understand the mapping among these multiple elements, but sometimes…

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,…

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…

Enterprise IT infrastructure is becoming more complex as companies are developing and monitoring public, private, and hybrid cloud environments along with microservices and third-party integrations — all this results in fragmented data and customer experiences. We conducted a survey to dig deeper in…

Back in March of 2018 I wrote the blog “How Do I Get Started Learning Network Programmability?” to help answer, well that question.  It was (and still is) one of the most common questions I get asked.  It’s been a wicked ride this last year and half in network automation, I figured…

Containers are an important technology for customers in their efforts to accelerate application innovation. At Cisco, we’ve been working across our ecosystem to offer solutions to help our customers deploy and manage container infrastructure and applications across on-premises and our partner’s clou…

This is part 3 of how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management. Previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. In the last two posts we have setup our server and local environments. So, it is now time to look at the actual demonstration on the power…

As you may have seen, here at DevNet we were super excited to launch our new certifications track at Cisco LIVE! in San Diego. You can read all about the launch in Susie Wee’s blog. With blueprints for the DEVNET associate, professional, and specialist exams available, this series of blog pos…