Cisco DevNet Associate Cert Prep 5: Infrastructure and Automation

This course provides an overview of infrastructure automation, including knowledge needed for the Infrastructure and Automation domain of the Cisco DevNet Associate certification.

Introduction

• Cisco exam prep introduction

1. Model-Driven Programmability

• Learn about model-driven programmability
• Overview of the YANG models

2. Controller vs. Device-Level Automation

• Benefits of controller-level automation vs. device-level automation
• Learn to use Cisco pyATS
• Learn to use Cisco VIRL

3. Automation Tools Overview

• Overview of the Ansible automation tool
• Overview of the Puppet automation tool
• Overview of the Chef automation tool
• Overview of the Cisco NSO automation tool

4. Infrastructure as Code

• What is infrastructure as code?
• CI/CD pipeline with infrastructure automation

5. Workflow Automation Examples

• Cisco APIC and ACI Python example
• Ansible network automation example
• Bash script automation example

6. Infrastructure Automation Practices

• Learn about the code review process
• Understand sequence diagram for API calls
• Understand unified diff
• Compare RESTCONF vs. NETCONF query results

Conclusion

• Next steps