Modernize and optimize network management with APIs and
automation
Legacy network management approaches don’t scale adequately
and can’t be automated well. This guide will help meet
tomorrow’s challenges by adopting network programmability
based on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Using
these techniques, you can improve efficiency, reliability,
and flexibility; simplify implementation of high-value
technologies; automate routine administrative and security
tasks; and deploy services far more rapidly.
Four expert authors help you transition from a legacy
mindset to one based on solving problems with software.
They explore today’s emerging network programmability and
automation ecosystem; introduce each leading programmable
interface; and review the protocols, tools, techniques, and
technologies that underlie network programmability. You’ll
master key concepts through hands-on examples you can run
using Linux, Python, Cisco DevNet sandboxes, and other
easily accessible tools.
This guide is for all network architects, engineers,
operations, and software professionals who want to
integrate programmability into their networks. It offers
valuable background for Cisco DevNet certification―and
skills you can use with any platform, whether you have
software development experience or not.
- Master core concepts and explore the network
programmability stack
- Manage network software and run automation scripts in
Linux environments
- Solve real problems with Python and its Napalm and
Nornir automation frameworks
- Make the most of the HTTP protocol, REST
architectural framework, and SSH
- Encode your data with XML, JSON, or YAML
- Understand and build data models using YANG that
offer a foundation for model-based network programming
- Leverage modern network management protocols, from
gRPC and gNMI to NETCONF and RESTCONF
- Meet stringent service provider KPIs in large-scale,
fast-changing networks
- Program Cisco devices running IOS XE, IOS XR, and
NX-OS as well as Meraki, DNA Center, and Webex platforms
- Program non-Cisco platforms such as Cumulus Linux and
Arista EOS
- Go from “zero to hero” with Ansible network
automation
- Plan your next steps with more advanced tools and
technologies