Cisco Live 2018 Bareclona PDF
Preview Cisco Live 2018 Bareclona
BRKACI-2770 Automating ACI Steve Sharman – Technical Solutions Architect Russ Whitear – Consulting Systems Engineer Cisco Spark Questions? Use Cisco Spark to communicate with the speaker after the session How 1. Find this session in the Cisco Live Mobile App 2. Click “Join the Discussion” 3. Install Spark or go directly to the space 4. Enter messages/questions in the space cs.co/ciscolivebot#BRKACI-2770 © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Abstract Automating ACI explores the use of popular automation tools running configuration tasks against an ACI network. Technologies discussed will include APIC, Visore, Postman, Ansible, Python (WebArya, Cobra), and UCS Director. The focus will be on providing structured methodologies that can be used to satisfy the requirements and desires of both infrastructure admins and application developers alike. BRKACI-2770 © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 4 Session objectives This session will provide attendees with an understanding of the ACI policy model and will provide them with the basic skills required in order to automate an ACI fabric and achieve business outcomes. BRKACI-2770 © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 5 Before we start, let’s get to know each other … BRKACI-2770 © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 6 Agenda • Why Automate? • ACI Primer • Application Centric or Network Centric • Automation use cases • ACI Policy Model • Postman • Ansible • Python • UCS Director Let’s start with an obvious question… Why are customers looking to automate in their Data Centers? BRKACI-2770 © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 9 There are actually many different reasons: • Cost reduction • Simplicity • Consistent configuration (Policy conformance, elimination of human error) • Reduction in maintenance windows • Structured changes during the business day • Service Catalogue for IT services BRKACI-2770 © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 10
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