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Securing Your Cloud-Native Application with Cisco App-First Security
Securing Your Cloud-Native Application with Cisco App-First Security
Updated learning lab and sandbox lets you use Cisco's Application-First Security solution to gain visibility into application behavior and increase the effectiveness of security controls. You'll get your hands dirty with technologies including git, Kubernetes, GitLab, Docker, and AWS.
March 30, 2022
5 Python Security Traps You Need to Avoid
5 Python Security Traps You Need to Avoid
Learn about five common Python mistakes that can cause serious vulnerabilities in production applications, and how to avoid them.
March 24, 2022
Automation with Any Tooling on Any Interface
Automation with Any Tooling on Any Interface
See how Terraform with IOS XE simplifies complex network configurations by orchestrating provisioning, configuration, and state management - in the cloud, on-prem in the campus enterprise network, or in the data center.
March 22, 2022
Policy as Code and the Open Policy Agent
Policy as Code and the Open Policy Agent
See how policy-as-code plays out in Kubernetes — what comes built-in with Kubernetes, and how the Open Policy Agent with Gatekeeper helps Kubernetes operators take policy enforcement further.
March 21, 2022
Run Your IoT Applications on an IP67 Industrial Router
Run Your IoT Applications on an IP67 Industrial Router
Try out all the programmability features of the Cisco IoT gateway, Industrial Router IR8140, in the DevNet Sandbox.
March 14, 2022
Try Automating a YubiKey Button Press
Try Automating a YubiKey Button Press
YubiKey is a device that enables two-factor authentication using a single button, by generating unique codes that confirm your identity. Here's a fun challenge you can try to automate a YubiKey.
March 9, 2022
Cisco Cloud Native Security – Part 3, GitOps and CI/CD
Cisco Cloud Native Security – Part 3, GitOps and CI/CD
Learn how to deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using GitOps as an operational framework that applies DevOps best practices to infrastructure automation.
March 7, 2022
Cisco Cloud Native Security – Part 2, Provisioning the Infrastructure
Cisco Cloud Native Security – Part 2, Provisioning the Infrastructure
See how to set up your dev environment and provision your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub.
March 3, 2022
Cisco Cloud Native Security – Part 1, Going Up the Stack from Infrastructure to Application
Cisco Cloud Native Security – Part 1, Going Up the Stack from Infrastructure to Application
Going up the stack from infrastructure to application - Learn what tools are needed, and how you can secure these environments using Cisco security technologies.
March 1, 2022
Developer-Led Network Automation Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
Developer-Led Network Automation Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
See how HashiCorp's Consul-Terraform-Sync helps keep applications secure as they are dynamically scaled across the network infrastructure. Check out the new learning lab, sandbox, and code repo.
Feb. 23, 2022
Using NSO with pyATS Parsers to Check Operational State
Using NSO with pyATS Parsers to Check Operational State
See how you can automate network checks with NSO and the pyATS parser, and create an Excel document for audit.
Feb. 17, 2022
Putting Your IaC in a Pipeline Without the Plumbing
Putting Your IaC in a Pipeline Without the Plumbing
Learn how infrastructure developers can utilize the standard pull request (PR) to perform Terraform actions (plan, apply) and drive infrastructure automation at the drop of a git push.
Feb. 15, 2022