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Customers have embraced or are on the path to embrace the DevOps model to accelerate application deployment and achieve higher efficiency in operating their data centers as well as public cloud deployments. This arises from the fact that infrastructure needs to change and respond faster than ever to…

Over the last month or two, as service usage has continued to expand, the DevNet Sandbox Team has been putting a lot of engineering concentrating on building out a new Data Center, focused on operational efficiency through automation and infrastructure programmability (you can read about some of the…

You don’t need to look hard to see that DevNet is growing, and as DevNet grows, DevNet Sandbox must grow. DevNet Sandbox provides engineers and developers access to Cisco, partner, and open source infrastructure, and software as a service from “the cloud.”  For a variety of reasons…

Eight months ago I joined the DevNet Sandbox Engineering and Operations team. For the first time in about eight years, I was back in a role where I had day to day responsibilities for a production environment. A big reason for my interest in joining this team was to see what it was like to apply the…

Previous posts in the NetDevOps Series are available here. This is part 1 of 3, on how to run your own demo using CI/CD pipelines for network configuration management. Now that you know about some of the most important building blocks for programmability, it is time to see them working together and…

CiscoLive US is nearly upon us and I’ll be jumping on a plane in just a few short days and hoping to meet many of you there to talk DevNet, Network Automation, Application Development and more! The DevNet Sandbox team will be back in the DevNet Zone and looking forward to helping you get hands on wi…

To protect your data, you must understand the traffic on your network.  This task has become even more challenging with widespread use of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, which inhibits traditional network security monitoring techniques.  The good news is that TLS fingerprinting can help…

I’d like to tell you about DevNet-related events and activities that took place in Kazakhstan at the end of February 2019. We conducted 4 events together with the local CDA team and Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility Program Manager in Kazakhstan. It’s no coincidence that we chose Astana Hub as a…

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…