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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…

It’s a new year and a new decade, so it’s time for a NEW BLOG about network automation. I am getting ready for Cisco Live Europe 2020 and want to give everyone a preview of some of what I’ll be talking about in my session How DevNet Sandbox Built an Automated Data Center Network in…

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…

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…

Break out the popcorn and candy for the conclusion to my exploration of Network Service based automation and how we’re using it within DevNet Sandbox as part of our own internal automation strategy.  In Part 1 the focus was on what consuming network services was like after they were built, and…

One of the common types of network engineering sleuthing is discovering what changed when the network is behaving differently, but everyone is saying “nothing changed.” In large networks this can be like looking for that needle in a haystack without a magnet… long, tedious, and rew…

Welcome back to my series on how we are putting network automation to work in the DevNet Sandbox.  This time around I wanted todive into some of the deep technical bits on how we’re using automation to configure and manage our network in a “Network Service” based model.   For this…

You don’t need to look hard to see that DevNet is growing, and as DevNet grows, DevNet Sandbox must grow. DevNet Sandbox provides engineers and developers access to Cisco, partner, and open source infrastructure, and software as a service from “the cloud.”  For a variety of reasons…