Network programmability
DevNet Certifications – How To Prepare for the Service Provider Automation and Programmability Exam
The network world is changing, and the skills that were valued a decade ago aren’t the ones that will carry your career into the future. This is what makes Cisco DevNet such an important resource for network professionals, and the new DevNet Certifications such a valuable proof that you’ve acq…
Take the NetDevOps Survey…See the Results
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…
Enhance Your Development Environment with Visual Studio Code Extensions
A few weeks back a few folks in the NetDevOps Live! Webex Teams Room were talking about source-code editors — how we got started, what text editing tool we started with, what we are using today — with a little of the why we use these (spoiler alert, its mostly personal preference). We al…
Mentoring and Coaching for the “New World” of Network Automation
#init6 – the what, who, why, how, and when What? The networking industry is changing (don’t worry, I’m not going to wheel out the clichés about network engineers being CLI jockeys and having to change and adapt to become programmers). To paraphrase one of my #init6 colleagues, R…
New DevNet Postman Collection Makes Using APIs Easier
Over the last few months, I have been very privileged to be working with the awesome team over at Postman. Postman is a great tool when exploring RESTful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) on network/platform devices, or for testing ones you have created yourself. Our two teams have a lot in…
Cisco DNA Center Network Operations Center Dashboard
Background One common request from customers is a Network Operations Center dashboard view for Cisco DNA Center. They would like this to be open-authentication (no need for credentials) and automatically refresh. Critical data from Cisco DNA Center, such as network device and user health can be di…
Using the Cisco DNA Center SDK
Background What is a Software Development Kit (SDK)? Put simply a set of tools, libraries and documentation to simplify interacting with a REST API. I am super excited, as I know how much simpler it is going to make developing scripts for the Cisco DNA Center API. The Cisco DNA Center SDK is writt…
Meraki DevNet Express: 2-days, Hands-on Learning Event
If you were at CLUS 2019 in San Diego this year, you may have heard some rumblings around the beach campfire about a new offering in the DevNet Express portfolio. Those rumblings were true as we were running a beta version of the new DevNet Express focusing on Meraki. Over the Saturday and Sunday p…
Tune in: Webinar on Campus Networking with ACI and ISE
This blog authored by Jason Mah, Technical Solution Architect for Cisco’s GVE Software Development Team As a company we market Cisco Application Centric infrastructure (ACI) as being anywhere. While most of our marketing materials show Cisco ACI being deployed in the Data Center, many customer…
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