network automation

May 31, 2018

DEVELOPER

Learn How To Leverage Meraki APIs in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live

Cisco Meraki is cloud-managed IT. With over 230,000+ customers and 3 million+ network devices around the world, you can create apps that enable loyalty programs, track the location of WiFi and BLE devices, build analytics extensions, and make it easier to deploy at scale. You asked for insight into…

May 30, 2018

DEVELOPER

Exploring Nornir, the Python Automation Framework

This blog contributed by Patrick Ogenstad. Patrick works at Conscia Netsafe, a Cisco Gold partner in Sweden. He also writes about automation and development on his blog Networklore    A while back a client asked me, “I’m guessing you are pretty good at Python multiprocessing?” I assumed that hi…

Cisco Crosswork – Part 4: Health Insights

In February, Cisco announced its latest innovation – Cisco Crosswork Network Automation – a new network automation portfolio for Service Providers.  Read Jonathan Davidson’s blog for an overview to understand our comprehensive approach in enabling a closed-loop, mass-scale automation solution. Follo…

Cisco Crosswork – Part 3: Situation Manager

In February, Cisco announced its latest innovation – Cisco Crosswork Network Automation – a new network automation portfolio for Service Providers.  Read Jonathan Davidson’s blog for an overview to understand our comprehensive approach to enabling a closed-loop, mass-scale automation solution. Follo…

Cisco’s automation solutions continue to embrace multi-vendor networks

This blog was authored by Shlomi Barsheshet, Product Manager for Service Providers Network Automation As with its recently introduced Crosswork Network Automation platform, Cisco continues to show its commitment to providing management and automation solutions that support carrier-grade multi-vendor…

April 25, 2018

DEVELOPER

Render your first network configuration template using Python and Jinja2

We all know how painful it is to enter the same text in to the CLI, to program the same network VLANs, over, and over, and over and over, and over…. We also know a better way that exists, with network programmability, but this solution could be a few years out before your company adopts the newest n…

April 9, 2018

DEVELOPER

Csilla Bessenyei Discusses Network Automation and Personal Gain

Guest blog by: Csilla Bessenyei Network Automation Engineer Dozens of new articles are getting published about network automation or NetDevOps every week. There are more open source projects, tools, frameworks, SDN architectures, initiatives, and vendor solutions than I can count on my fingers and t…

Cisco Crosswork – Part 2: Network Insights

In February, Cisco announced its latest innovation – Cisco Crosswork Network Automation – a new network automation portfolio for Service Providers.  Read Jonathan Davidson’s blog for an overview to understand our comprehensive approach to enabling a closed-loop, mass-scale automation solution. Follo…

February 22, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco @MWC 2018: It’s all about 5G Services, Automation and Infrastructure

For the past few years, all of us in the industry have been talking about 5G.  Much of the discussion has been around the excitement of new spectrum and radios to enable that – it was all about ENABLING 5G. This year is different – the discussion now is about what we are all DOING with 5G. There are…