Managing Cisco Networks via Infrastructure as Code
By Nick Russo
Course info



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Description
Cut through the buzzwords around IT infrastructure automation and orchestration with this course. In this course, Managing Cisco Networks via Infrastructure as Code, you will gain the ability to design, deploy, and manage networks using modern automation techniques. First, you will learn the fundamentals of networking such as IP routing, Ethernet switching, and critical network services (DHCP, DNS, NAT, SNMP, and NTP). Next, you will discover the capabilities of common Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Cisco pyATS, Puppet, and Ansible. Finally, you will explore network-oriented model-driven programmability by exploring YANG, NETCONF, and RESTCONF. This includes demonstrations hosted on Cisco DevNet sandboxes using Cisco IOS-XE and Cisco Nexus platforms. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of a junior network automation engineer needed to successfully automate your production systems.
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Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Nick Russo, and welcome to my Managing Cisco Networks via Infrastructure as Code course. This course builds on your previous software development and DevOps skills, with a heavy focus on networking. You'll learn how networks operate and how to effectively apply automation by exploring these topics, computer networking fundamentals, deployment and usage of common IP services, model-driven programmability based on YANG, enabling infrastructure as code using NETCONF, Ansible, and more, last, utilizing RESTCONF as a lighter-weight alternative to NETCONF. After completing this course, you'll be able to employ a variety of network automation techniques in any business environment. Before beginning this course, I suggest viewing these two important prerequisite courses. This Getting Started course covers important contextual topics surrounding software design, source control, and the construction of a simple web application. It also covers some Python and Bash basics you'll need to understand for this course. This second course covers two key topics, interacting with a variety of Cisco product APIs and the fundamental techniques used in DevOps. Some of these DevOps concepts are relevant for network automation too. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn modern network management with this Managing Cisco Networks via Infrastructure as Code course, at Pluralsight.