netdevops

In just a couple weeks I’ll be headed to Melbourne for my very first Cisco Live “down under” and I absolutely can’t wait!  #CLMel has long been on my bucket list to attend, and I was honored to be invited by the excellent DevNet Events team to come down this year.  And if I&#…

The requisite for Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline being used in the network is growing. Continuous Integration and deployment helps counteract inaccuracies in daily network deployments and changes, hence is critically required. The upshot for change release and automated netwo…

Whew… I’m freshly back from Barcelona and Cisco Live Europe 2018. It was without a doubt my favorite and most rewarding, Cisco Live yet!  #CLEUR 2018 marked my one year as a part of the #DevNet team and as an event it provided an excellent bookend to an amazing year where we were able to…

Network automation is not just for the engineers who configure and run the networks. When you write code to be run on your network hardware, consider that some of it will help others in their roles too. With network automation, new or service upgrade deployments can be done to expand capacity, or ad…

“Network as Code” comes from “Infrastructure as Code” No matter where you turn in IT today, the impact of “DevOps” and “Cloud” can be seen and felt.  And this is with good reason.  The massive benefits that have been seen through agile processes, autom…

This month I started as a member of the Cisco DevNet team as a Network Automation Developer!!! I will be contributing now to Cisco DevNet learning labs, blogging, and working with all things network automation at Cisco. A bit of history about me to start with here. I have been a network engineer for…

One of the things I love about DevNet is our commitment and passion in helping our community of customers, partners, and Cisco employees rapidly learn and adopt the new skills and technologies that are fundamental in this new age of programmability and API driven everything.  We’ve long had Le…

It’s right around the corner… Cisco Live Europe 2018 in Barcelona, and I absolutely can’t wait!  Every Cisco Live I’ve ever been to, or presented at, has been an amazing experience, but Barcelona is going to be in a league of its own.  From the moment I arrive in Spain on Fri…

Welcome back!  In Part 1: Embrace NetDevOps, Say Goodbye to a “Culture of Fear”, I introduced my definition of NetDevOps and talked about how we need to dispel the “Culture of Fear” as we move to NetDevOps.  We also considered the two stakeholders of NetDevOps, the builders a…