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Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I use non-original resources, I will provide a link to those Read more…
Disclaimer: I work at Cisco for the Customer Engagements Center of Excellence, which includes dCloud. Among other things, I am also a dCloud developer. dCloud is a sales and training enablement platform that allows Cisco, Partners, and Customers to demonstrate Cisco’s solutions. Demo Solutions, Get Hands On I’m continually surprised Read more…
Just a quick post to link to the DevNet lab that I built around setting up Ubuntu Desktop as a development environment. I had posted a few previous blog entries around adapting the DevNet CentOS learning lab for Ubuntu, and Hank Preston asked if I’d be willing to do an Read more…
What is Cisco SD-WAN? At its heart, Cisco SD-WAN is about ensuring that business applications leverage the optimal transport, aka ‘intent-based SD-WAN’. Intent-Based SD-WAN is about leveraging business use cases and business outcomes as the basis for WAN design, rather than building a WAN based on transports and then deciding Read more…
I was recently a guest on Zigbits Design Podcast, covering a DCI design I worked on with a customer which was a little non-standard but a good use case. ZNDP 034 – Data Center Interconnect Design Use Case with BGP
I’m working hard on learning Python, and while learning my new job at dCloud I was able to inspect some other scripts to perform some network automation created by Dustin over at packetsmurf.org. Pulling it apart I noticed a library called netmiko which was developed by Kirk Byers. Netmiko is Read more…
DevNet suggests ATOM as a text editor for code, and it is pretty powerful especially when you add packages. Unfortunately, I ran into some issues when looking to add it to my Ubuntu box and since DevNet has a CentOS walkthrough, it wasn’t very helpful. Once again, I turned to Read more…
Because I clearly have too much time on my hands with trying to switch skillsets to dCloud development, I decided to spend some time with Cisco DevNet as well. This website is amazing! I think we can all agree that the networking industry is headed towards programmability as a means Read more…
As I start to learn new skills for my new position, one of the things that was suggested to me was to look into nested virtualization. In my ignorance, I didn’t know what was meant by nested virtualization, but it turns out that the term refers to running a hypervisor Read more…
I’m leaving Cisco Advanced Services in a week, and I’ll be starting a new job with the Cisco Customer Engagement Center of Excellence (Formerly Proof of Value Services). This organization includes CPOC and dCloud, and so it’s time I retreaded very old ground and started re-learning things like VMWare administration and Linux. Read more…