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Cisco® Introducing Automation for Cisco® Solutions  v1.0 (CSAU)

This course provides engineers with a broad overview of skills to become a next-generation engineers by examining tools and technologies that can both accelerate network automation and increase collaboration across internal and external teams using version control systems.

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Learning Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet these objectives:

  • Articulate the role network automation and programmability plays in the context of end to end network management and operations
  • Define and differentiate between waterfall and agile software development methodologies
  • Interpret and troubleshoot Python scripts with fundamental programming constructs built for network automation use cases
  • Describe how DevOps principles, tools, and pipelines can be applied to network operations
  • Understand the role of network automation development environments and associated technologies such as Python virtual environments, Vagrant, and Docker
  • Understand and construct HTTP-Based APIs calls to network devices
  • Articulate the difference and common use cases for XML, JSON, YAML, and protobuf
  • construct and interpret Python scripts using the Python requests module to automate devices that have HTTP-Based APIs
  • Understand the role YANG plays within a network automation context
  • Understand that a number of tools exist to simplify working with YANG models
  • Describe the functionality of RESTCONF and NETCONF and the differences between them
  • Construct Ansible playbooks to configure network devices and retrieve operational state data from network devices
  • Build Jinja2 templates and YAML data structures to generate desired state configurations

     

    Course Details

    Course Outline

    1 - Examining Network Management and Operations
  • Traditional network management
  • Network automation and programmability
  • Network automation use cases
  • Multidomain network automation
  • Discover 1: Use network automation scripts
    • 2 - Exploring Software Development Methodologies
  • Waterfall development process
  • Agile methodology
    • 3 - Using Python for Network Automation
  • Python fundamentals
  • Discovery 2: Enforce Python fundamentals on the interactive interpreter
  • Network libraries
  • Python package management
  • Inside Python modules
  • Discovery 3: Automate networks with Netmiko
  • Discovery 4: Troubleshoot Python scripts
    • 4 - Describing NetDevOps: DevOps for Networking
  • Development and operations
  • Exploring DevOps tools
  • Git fundamentals
  • Git branches
  • Merge conflicts
  • Continuous integration
  • Discovery 5: Use the git version-control system and collaborate on the internal project
  • Discover 6: Manage merge conflicts
    • 5 - Managing Automation Development Environments
  • Need for reproducible development environments
  • Python virtual environments
  • Python virtual environments
  • Vagrant
  • Docker
  • Discovery 7: Build reproduceable automation environments
    • 6 - Introducing HTTP Network APIs
  • API Overview
  • HTTP-Based APIs
  • RESTful APIs vs. Non-RESTful APIs
  • HTTP-Based authentication
  • Postman
  • Discovery 8: Use HTTP-Based APIs with Postman
  • Steaming telemetry
    • 7 - Reviewing Data Formats and Data Encoding
  • JavaScript object notation
  • Extensible markup language
  • gRPC and Protobuf
  • YAML data serialization standard
  • Discovery 9: Explore YAML and JSON data
    • 8 - Using Python Requests to Automate HTTP-Based APIs
  • Python requests overview
  • HTTP authentication
  • Discovery 10: Consume HTTP-Based APIs using the Python requests module
    • 9 - Exploring YANG
  • Introduction to YANG
  • Types of YANG models
    • 10 - Using YANG Tools
  • YANG tool types
  • Pyang
  • YANG Explorer
  • Discovery 11: Explore YANG tools
    • 11 - Automating Model-Driven APIs with Python
  • NETCONF overview
  • Python ncclient
  • Discovery 12: Explore RESTCONF with Python
  • Discovery 13: Explore NETCONF with Python
    • 12 - Introducing Ansible for Network Automation
  • Configuration management tools
  • Introduction to Ansible
  • Ansible inventory file
  • Use the Cisco IOS core configuration module
  • Ansible documentation
  • Discovery 14: Configure network devices with Ansible
  • Gather Cisco IOS device facts
  • Use the Cisco IOS core command module
  • Discovery 15: Collect network data with Ansible
    • 13 - Templating Configurations with Jinja2
  • Jinja2 overview
  • Basic YAML
  • Configuration templating with Ansible
  • Discovery 16: Build and deploy configurations with Ansible

    • Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.

    Who is it For?

    Target Audience

  • Customer Engineers
  • Systems Engineer
  • Network Engineer

    • Other Prerequisites

    The knowledge and skills that you are expected to have before attending this course are:
  • Routing and switching including OSPF, BGP, and basic configuration features such as interfaces, SNMP, and static routes
  • Fundamentals of Python data structures and programming constructs such as loops, conditionals, and classes (3-6 months of experiences in writing Python scripts
  • Basic Linux commands for navigating the file system and executing scripts
  • Knowledge of working with text editors

    • Cisco® Introducing Automation for Cisco® Solutions  v1.0 (CSAU)

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    Course Length : 2 Days

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