Name: Implementing ACI and UCS Deployments with Cisco Action Orchestrator
Start: 2020-04-30T15:00:00Z
End: 2020-04-30T15:59:23.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Traditional networking has evolved in recent years towards automated solutions. Infrastructure as code has emerged as a new way to manage network configurations using automation tools and frameworks.

One of these frameworks, Cisco pyATS, offers an even more modern approach towards infrastructure as code and network automation: test-driven automation. Test-driven automation combines elements of the popular test-driven development process, which encourages simple designs and inspires confidence in solutions, with Python-based infrastructure as code to create a revolutionary approach to network automation. The Cisco pyATS framework provides developers with the tools required to capture network state, push configurations, and easily test the resulting network state and configuration against intent.

In this webinar, we will be exploring pyATS, providing examples of test-driven automation, and answering your test-driven automation questions in a friendly, open environment

Test Driven Development with pyATS

It is very important for operators in any industry to have good visibility of their assets – either in outdoor or indoor spaces. For example, keeping an eye on their HVAC systems, networking closets, critical inventory, outdoor parking spaces, or even industrial assets on the shop floor. The new Meraki MT sensors, Meraki MV cameras, and Cisco Industrial Asset vision IoT sensor solution allow you to track those assets, get data for your decision making and create actionable notifications. See in this webinar how we integrated these solutions in our Cisco office in Frankfurt and how easy you can process the asset data and integrate it.

Get Insights from your IT & OT Assets

On this webinar, you will learn more about the "SecureX Serverless Relay". You will also learn about the brand new DevNet Learning Track, which teaches you how to create custom integrations with SecureX. The SecureX serverless relay is used to integrate 3rd party systems into SecureX. The serverless relay allows SecureX Threat Response to observe, deliberate, refer, and respond to observables from 3rd party solutions. The serverless relay can be deployed anywhere, on the application, bare metal server, VM, or in the cloud, such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions. For this DevNet Learning Lab, you will deploy the Serverless Relay Module in AWS.

Building and coding custom integration with Cisco SecureX

Discover the new content for NSO now on Cisco DevNet and you can get started with it today. Live demos with topics that will be covered are data modeling, service templates, and using the Python and RESTCONF APIs.

New NSO Content on DevNet

Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly known as AMP (Advanced Malware Protection) for Endpoints) has a powerful REST API to enable your security automation use cases. In this webinar we will do a quick introduction to AMP and AMP APIs, we will also explore some simple tasks you can think about for automation of your endpoints security workflows. We will explore automation using APIs for AMP for Endpoints event logs, audit logs, user activity, computer activities, etc. You will learn about simple scripting using Python/Postman. All of the used demos will be available via GitHub at the end of the presentation.

Automating with Cisco Secure Endpoint

YANG Suite is HTML5 based tooling that is available for working with the YANG based programmable interfaces on Cisco IOS XE, XR, and NX Network Operating Systems. It has plugins that allow for interacting with the programmable interfaces and supports downloading YANG files directly from network devices. The device lifecycle is supported with the tool specifically for Model-Driven Programmability and Model-Driven Telemetry use cases. During this session, an overview of YANG Suite's capabilities will be completed in a live-demo format where each of the capabilities and features will be seen. Those familiar with the now end-of-life Flash-based YANGExplorer tooling have long awaited this public release from Cisco for the YANG Suite tooling - and that wait is no more.

The wait is over for the Cisco YANG Suite Tooling!

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet wherever users go. There are many brand-new API endpoints that give access to Umbrella’s DNS Security, Cloud-Delivered Firewall, Secure Web Gateway, and Cloud Access Security Broker features. On top of that, we have brand-new DevNet learning labs and a DevNet sandbox coming soon to work with. Join this webinar to learn more and get started yourself!

Umbrella Cloud-Security: Introducing New Learning Labs and Sandbox

Terraform from HashiCorp is becoming a popular tool in cloud and DevOps circles, due to its declarative nature, simple syntax, and portable nature. This presentation will provide an introduction to Terraform and its configuration language (HashiCorp Configuration Language, HCL), the advantages to its use, and how to use the ACI Terraform provider to apply the configuration to a fabric. Additionally, this presentation will cover some resources available through DevNet to assist you in your Terraform journey.

Introduction to Terraform and ACI

Today’s applications are dynamic, using virtualization, containerization, microservices, and workload mobility technologies, with communication patterns between application components constantly changing. The Cisco Secure Workload platform is designed to fully address these challenges, using comprehensive traffic telemetry data collected from the workloads. The platform performs advanced analytics using an algorithmic approach and provides comprehensive workload protection for a multi-cloud data center. This algorithmic approach includes unsupervised machine-learning techniques and behavioral analysis. Based on this, Cisco Secure Workload can automatically generate a micro-segmentation policy based on application behavior and including any existing security policy mandated by business requirements. On top of that, it can consistently enforce this segmentation policy across a multi-cloud infrastructure to minimize lateral movement.

In the webinar, you will learn all about this and also learn how to put it into practice using the open APIs. In the end, you will be referenced to a full training that learns you how to do it yourself!

Protecting your Cloud-Native Applications with Cisco Secure Workload

GitOps and CI/CD provide significant benefits to a Kubernetes environment from an immutable audit trail to pre-deployment testing.

However, Kubernetes, initially, did not make use of a GitOps model but instead provides its own deployment path using writes to the Kubernetes API. There are a lot of Kubernetes users who are comfortable with the native Kubernetes API and the related CLI tool ‘kubectl’. Due to the way the Kubernetes API is designed, it is possible to use a GitOps CI/CD chain, or a kubctl API call to make a modification to your Kubernetes cluster, but you can’t do both. The current tooling makes a kubectl call incompatible with GitOps.

In this talk, we’ll cover the pros and cons of each model, and why they don’t play so well together. We also will discuss some options we are considering on how to harmonize both paths, and, if the code is ready in time, maybe even have a demo to show.

The Benefits of a GitOps Model for a Cloud-Native Environment

Learn how to use the Meraki Python SDK to back up and restore Internet and VPN traffic uplink preferences, as well as custom performance classes, to and from a single Excel file. This demo proves how leveraging the Meraki API and SDK can substantially streamline complex deployments or configuration rollbacks.

Manage your SD-WAN Uplink Preferences & Performance Classes Through Meraki APIs

Join us to learn about our new DevNet Automation Exchange and get answers to your questions. Networking automation is one of the biggest challenges IT departments face. DevNet Automation Exchange addresses this challenge by hosting a set of shared code repositories for network automation that developers, partners and customers are using and contributing to. Automation Exchange meets the organization where they are on their journey. Those just beginning their journey can start to understand how they can get visibility and insights into their networks. More advanced professionals can begin setting policies across different network domains. Experienced professionals can find solutions to proactively manage applications, users, and devices with DevOps workflows.

Learn how to make Network Automation Simple with the Community

Join us for an introduction to developing with SecureX, Cisco's new security platform, and a built-in experience for all Cisco Secure customers. In this session, you will learn about the primary interfaces of SecureX that are available for your in-house or 3rd party integrations, and how this open platform can be leveraged to increase the efficiency of your SOC and the security of your organization.

Developing with SecureX

Meraki’s Dashboard API has proven for years to be a useful tool in network creation, management, and monitoring. It has provided thousands of organizations ROI in time and effort by allowing them to build network and applications for how they manage IT. The first version of the Meraki Dashboard API (v0 as it’s called) was bolted on to the platform as an additional feature rather than the driver of features and development. Working in conjunction with DevNet, Meraki adopted and “API First” mentality in the development of v1 and is now ready to unveil the resulting improvements. In this session, we will explore differences from v0 and v1 that will enhance the developer experience, promote consistency and adoption of REST standards, and identify avenues for increased efficiency in API implementation and usage.

Meraki Dashboard API v1 Release

Cisco’s Application-First Security approach leverages Tetration, Stealthwatch Cloud, Duo, and AppDynamics to secure all stages of the application lifecycle, across cloud and on-premises deployments, on any workload, and integrated into any application. You can secure your applications no matter where you are in the journey to cloud-native so all of your crown jewels can be safe. Learn all about this during our 60-minute webinar on October 27th, 8AM PDT!

Security Automation & Orchestration Series: Application First Security

Cisco UCS and Cisco Intersight can both be managed with Ansible, so whether you are managing your Cisco UCS infrastructure locally with Cisco UCS Manager or via the Cloud, Cisco Intersight Ansible is ready to help. Since you may already be using Ansible to manage your data center networks and your servers OS configurations, join me and I'll show you how the Cisco UCS and the Cisco Intersight Ansible Collections can be utilized to manage your Cisco Compute Infrastructure.

Cisco Compute Infrastructure Managed Locally and from the Cloud with Ansible

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Ever wanted to learn a new Cisco technology? Get hands-on with a new release? Understand APIs or study for a DevNet Certification? Try out code samples on test networks? Then look no further than DevNet Sandbox!

DevNet Sandbox provides on-demand development, learning, and testing environments across all of Cisco's Technology portfolio….free for everyone. You can be delving into new network routers in seconds, developing new apps on collaboration solutions, or trying out the latest world-class security products…and within minutes, when you want to!

Join this webinar to learn more about how you can get started with DevNet Sandbox today!

Introduction to Cisco DevNet Sandbox

Interconnecting devices is ultimately designed to allow for access to resources that can actually “do something”, e.g. the compute portion of a network. Provisioning and managing these devices and their connectivity is key to an end-to-end solution. Cisco UCS and Cisco ACI allow an organization to fully manage their data center resources. With extensive API support, these platforms can be integrated into a variety of solutions. In this session, we will be introduced to how both platforms can be integrated together as part of a multi-domain solution in Cisco Action Orchestrator.

Implementing ACI and UCS Deployments with Cisco Action Orchestrator

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