Consuming Cisco APIs and Understanding Application DevOps

By Nick Russo
If you work in IT, you've heard about the many new Cisco products on the market. This course explores their APIs and introduces fundamental application deployment considerations, DevOps techniques, and common security threats.
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Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Sep 5, 2019
Duration
2h 23m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Leveraging Cisco Management Solutions and SDKs
Introductions and Prerequisites 2m Adding Structure with Model Driven Programmability 3m Managing Networks with Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) 1m Demo: NSO Sandbox Quick Start Setup 6m Demo: Device Management with NSO REST API 5m Why are Software Development Kits (SDK) Useful? 1m Demo: From Custom Scripts to the DNA Center SDK 6m Module Review 1m
Exploring Cisco Purpose-built Products
Introduction and Important Notes 2m Managing Wireless Networks with Cloud-based Meraki 3m Demo: Collecting Meraki Network Details using REST API 5m Optimizing WAN Performance with Cisco SD-WAN 3m Demo: Gathering SD-WAN Site Information using REST API 4m Exploring Cisco Data Center Solutions 5m Demo: Viewing ACI End Point Groups (EPGs) using REST API 4m Collaboration using Cisco Unified Communications (UC) Solutions 2m Demo: Posting Chat Messages in Webex Teams using REST API 5m Protecting Networks with Cisco’s Next-generation Security Products 3m Module Review 1m
Designing Application Deployments in Various Environments
Introducing Different Types of Application Environments 5m Alternative Environments: Hybrid Cloud and Edge Computing 3m Exploring Different Virtualization Technologies 4m Demo: Building a Dockerfile 5m Demo: Using Bash Commands to Deploy Docker Containers 4m Demo: Saving Time with docker-compose 6m Module Review 1m
Getting Familiar with DevOps Processes and Tools
Dispelling the Buzzword "DevOps" 5m Introducing CI/CD Pipelines and Test-driven Development (TDD) 4m Demo: Using pylint to Keep Code Clean 4m Demo: Real-life TDD by Writing Unit Tests with pytest 5m Demo: System Testing using Docker and pytest 6m Demo: Reviewing a Basic Test Pipeline in Travis CI 5m Module Review 1m
Understanding Web Application Threats and Mitigations
Introducing OWASP 2m Exploring the OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilities 8m Demo: CRM Injection Attack in Action 3m Options for Managing Secrets in Python 4m Adding Supplementary Security Components and Services 3m Course Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Sep 5, 2019
Duration
2h 23m
Description

This course focuses on two major topics: Modern Cisco solution API usage and application deployment strategies. In this course, Consuming Cisco APIs and Understanding Application DevOps, you will gain the ability to deploy, test, and manage applications at a basic level. First, you will learn how to interact with Cisco products through their APIs. This includes products from across the Cisco portfolio, including enterprise networking, data center, service provider, security, and collaboration verticals. Next, you will discover the various application deployment strategies, such as using bare metal, virtual machines, and Docker containers. This includes a discussion around high-level cloud deployment designs. Finally, you will explore how to design and build a basic Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. The course wouldn't be complete without a review of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 vulnerabilities. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the basic skills and knowledge of application deployment and management needed to programmatically manage modern Cisco solutions in production.

About the author
Nick Russo
About the author

Nick Russo, CCDE #20160041 and CCIE #42518, is your go-to-guy for all things networking and automation. Nick loves training online and speaking at industry conferences sharing his expertise.

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Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Nick Russo, and welcome to my course on Consuming Cisco APIs and Understanding Application DevOps. This content is perfect for individuals who love hands-on examples and a practical application, but don't know where to start. In this course, we'll cover a variety of topics such as writing Python code to interact with popular Cisco product REST APIs, using software development kits or SDKs, exploring a variety of cloud and virtualization options, Docker container fundamentals and use cases, DevOps principles and continuous integration pipelines, and modern web application security. After completing this course, you'll be able to write, test, and maintain high quality Python API interaction scripts for whatever business project comes your way. Before beginning this course, I'd recommend the following prerequisite course. This Getting Started course covers important contextual topics surrounding software design, source control, and the construction of a simple web application that we use extensively in this course. You'll want to watch it first to best follow the business scenario. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn about Consuming Cisco APIs and Understanding Application DevOps with this course at Pluralsight.

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