pyATS

March 11, 2020

DEVELOPER

pyATS Demos Introduction and Setup – NetDevOps Series, Part 12 

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…

October 22, 2019

DEVELOPER

pyATS | Genie APIs Unlock the Power of Cisco DNA Center

Join me on Nov 7 for a DevNet hosted webinar: Network Automation with pyATS, Genie and Cisco DNA Center.  The blog below is a primer for that webinar. Integrating APIs into the pyATS automation ecosystem Intent-based networking using Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center provides you an eagle’s…

October 8, 2019

DEVELOPER

What Changed In My Network?!! Let Genie Tell You

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…

June 25, 2019

DEVELOPER

pyATS & Genie – Beneath the Surface

In the previous article: “Network Engineers Transform!,” you learned that pyATS | Genie comes with ready-to-use libraries, allowing everyone to exercise the power of these libraries, and perform powerful state difference verifications using its native shell CLI. Today, we’ll take you behind the scen…

May 28, 2019

DEVELOPER

pyATS & Genie – Network Engineers Transform!

One of the questions that gets asked most often around NetDevOps is, “I love the concept of NetDevOps, but I’m not a software developer. I’ve been a network engineer for X years, and I don’t know how to code…where do I  start?” You can start with Python. It’s a great programming la…

March 15, 2019

DEVELOPER

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…

November 7, 2018

DEVELOPER

Documenting Network Automation Examples on DevNet Code Exchange

It’s no secret that one of the biggest challenges network engineers face when they embark on the network automation journey is the lack of concise documentation in open source projects. In many cases, I find myself digging through the code of projects to understand how to use it (therefore my…

September 13, 2018

DEVELOPER

Plan, Test, Deploy: The Best Ways to Prevent Network Outages

Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. Chances are, if you are in engineering, you have been involved in an outage at some stage in your career – be this your current role or a former role. No one likes the unexpected wake-up calls at 01…

March 2, 2018

DEVELOPER

NetDevOps, and the Rise of the Programmable Network (PN)

In the “old” days, applications and infrastructure were designed and built by separate teams. But things have changed. Cloud infrastructure has emerged and beckons cloud applications into play. And just like that we’ve entered the world of DevOps, where new applications are being deployed with expec…