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Choosing Tools to Deploy and Maintain Applications and Infrastructure – Part 2
Choosing Tools to Deploy and Maintain Applications and Infrastructure – Part 2
Terraform or Ansible? Which is the best infrastructure-as-code tool for your environment? Or, can you use both together to take advantage of their unique strengths and purpose?
Sept. 10, 2021
Network Automation: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Network Automation: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Let’s take a look at some of the network automation tools being used today to configure our networks, and keep them safe.
April 10, 2019
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 3 – Data-Driven Ansible
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 3 – Data-Driven Ansible
The combination of YANG and NETCONF give us structure and determinism to enable network programmability, and give us several operational advantages over CLI.
Oct. 24, 2018
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 2 – Data Models
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 2 – Data Models
Before I get into data models, I want to take a slight diversion to incorporate some of the feedback that I received from the first blog. It was pointed out...
Sept. 26, 2018
From DevNet Create to Ansible Contributor
From DevNet Create to Ansible Contributor
Originally built for software provisioning and configuration management Ansible has spread into many other technologies, including networking and compute hardware.
Sept. 24, 2018
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 1 – Ansible Basics
Automating Your Network Operations, Part 1 – Ansible Basics
New blog series gets you beyond the hype and simple demonstrations, and lets you dive more deeply into how and why to automate your network operations.
Sept. 5, 2018
Scaling to PB within Minutes – The Road to Full Automation for Scale-Out Storage with Cisco UCS
Scaling to PB within Minutes – The Road to Full Automation for Scale-Out Storage with Cisco UCS
Building Scale-Out Storage solutions can be now fully automated to reduce the overall amount of work and to easily scale software-defined storage environments within minutes. Partners and customers can begin to leverage this capability using Ansible modules and playbooks for UCS Manager.
June 20, 2018
ACI loves KVM and Red Hat Virtualization
ACI loves KVM and Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization provides a powerful solution for modern data centers. Additional ACI integrations for network and security automation can dramatically simplify DC operations and application provisioning.
April 12, 2018
Automating Cisco ACI with Ansible Eliminates Repetitive Day-to-Day Tasks
Automating Cisco ACI with Ansible Eliminates Repetitive Day-to-Day Tasks
Jacob McGill is a network automation engineer at Network to Code, a network automation solutions provider that provides network automation training and professional services. He spends his time helping customers automate their networks using tools including like Python and Ansible. Jacob is also an Ansible developer who's written and contributed to many of the ACI modules that were released in 2.4. Feel free to reach out to Jacob at [email protected]
Dec. 13, 2017
New DevNet Learning Module, “Home Lab: Setting up Your Desktop OS for Network Programmability”
New DevNet Learning Module, “Home Lab: Setting up Your Desktop OS for Network Programmability”
Hey, you networkers out there. (Yes, it’s a little weird - I’m talking to networkers in a blog post at a site where a lot of Developers hang out.)
Oct. 23, 2017
Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack using Ansible
Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack using Ansible
At the recently concluded OpenStack summit in Austin, I was impressed by the amount of interest shown by attendees on containers. Almost all of the
May 6, 2016