programmability
NetDevOps Live! Season 2 Shines a Spotlight on Network Automation
NetDevOps Live! Season 2 Starts April 2019 Oh yeah, we’re back and better than ever. After a relaxing off season made up of multiple Cisco Live events and other conferences, we are back with NetDevOps Live! Season 2. And in Season 2 we are taking a look at network automation from start to fi…
Data Center Compute Sessions at Cisco Live Melbourne
I told some friends recently about my upcoming trip to Melbourne Australia for Cisco Live 2019 and their reactions were all very similar… “How can you be on a plane so long?!” “I would go crazy!” “No way you would get me on that plane!” “I cannot even think about it, stop talking…” That last comme…
Cisco Live Melbourne and the thriving Developer Community
It is that time of the year again. Summer in Australia is in full swing! I have just come back from an amazing Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona. Now, I am turning my attention to the upcoming Cisco Live in Melbourne (March 5-8). This is one of my favorite events! Cisco Live Melbourne is in my home…
Are You Ready to Learn About Intuitive Wi-Fi?!
Cisco Live Melbourne is right around the corner! Running from 5-8 March 2019 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, it will be my first time representing Cisco at our annual showcase and education event since joining 6 months ago. I have worked with Cisco solutions for many years as a…
NetDevOps Invades DevNet Sandbox
When I joined DevNet in December of 2016 it was to dive deep and hard into all things network automation and programmability. Fairly quickly I was entranced with the idea of NetDevOps, and working out how to apply ideas like Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management, CICD, Streaming Telemetry…
There and Back Again – A Network Engineer’s Tale
Get your free DevNet account for access to developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. I am a tremendous fan of J.R.R. Tolkien. His books are, without doubt, among the best epic fantasy novels. His characters, races, and the overall world are vast and abundant. There is a conversation between F…
See How to Use the Plug and Play Template Editor in Cisco DNA Center – Part 3
The Rubber Hits the Road.. The first and second blog posts in this series gave an overview of network Plug and Play (PnP) and how it has evolved in Cisco DNA Center. They showed a very simple workflow to provision a device with a configuration template with a variable called “hostname.” Th…
New NetDevOps Home on DevNet Brings Resources and Community Together
I’ve been talking and writing about NetDevOps here on DevNet for quite a while now. There are blog posts, videos, webinars, learning labs, and so much more that all delve into the rich and exciting topics within NetDevOps. NetDevOps is the combination of the culture, tools, ideas, and best pra…
DevNet Express: Cisco SEs Get Trained to Lead Hands-on Programmability Events
Scaling up to train more partners and customers on Cisco APIs Some of you reading this post might know what a DevNet Express event is, but you probably don’t know the history behind it. Let me give you a bit of background on how DevNet Express events came to be and what they actually are. We f…