Cisco IOS XE presents superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and scale back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs corresponding to NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure units, minimizing guide errors. The mixing of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates machine onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry gives real-time information assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your complete machine lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options permit our clients to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the slicing fringe of community automation, enabling quicker, safer, and environment friendly community operations.
Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be part of us at Cisco Dwell AMEA in San Diego June 8 – 12, 2025!
These classes cowl subjects starting from getting began with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and subjects starting from trendy approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Change. For the primary time ever, there might be a four-hour technical seminar masking an summary of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the main points of the upcoming Cisco Dwell classes beneath:
Technical Seminar
Automating All Issues YANG, On a regular basis – Programmability and Automation 101 with Cisco IOS XE [TECOPS-2314]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE contains an summary of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments corresponding to YANG Suite might be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities can even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization might be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our units to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
Breakout Periods
Atomic Config Change with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]
Atomic Configuration and atomic config exchange is changing into an increasing number of requested, and this session dives deep into the newly launched options inside IOS XE and the Catalyst 9000 household. Having the ability to handle configuration in an atomic style permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config exchange options might be demonstrated so that you could instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config exchange. Simply exchange ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide a whole config and that config might be set no matter current configuration.
Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! [BRKOPS-1401]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE contains an summary of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments corresponding to YANG Suite might be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities can even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization might be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our units to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
gRPC, gNMI, gNOI… Oh My! An Enterprise Community Automation Journey [BRKDEV-2017]
What number of Google API micro companies are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? On the finish of this session not solely will you be capable of reply this query with confidence however additionally, you will have a deep understanding of the options and actual world use circumstances which are enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are the very best practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of huge quantities of telemetry information ? This session covers the entire Programmability & Automation lifecycle of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 when managed utilizing gRPC, gNMI and gNOI… oh my!
The Community of the Future is Right here – Let’s Automate your IPv6 deployment with Python! [BRKOPS-2223]
IPv6 marks a brand new horizon on this planet of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It’s time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the fitting means from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll learn to plan your IPv6 transition and easy methods to use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll study concerning the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may enable you to on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow choices corresponding to automated testing and sources of fact can even be coated. This session is designed for community engineers who’ve a necessity to begin implementing IPv6. The session’s target market has little or no prior expertise with Python automation and is pretty new to IPv6 as nicely. After the breakout, the attendees have a risk to attempt the introduced subjects in observe via Seize the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Periods
Fashionable approaches for IOS XE community machine administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]
In the event you handle any variety of IOS XE units instantly then this session is for you as a result of it can in a short time make you an skilled within the working system’s Day0-N options so that you could handle the community extra effectively. Day0 contains the lengthy standing ZTP Zero-Contact provisioning however when encryption is required end-to-end then the Safe ZTP options can be utilized. A comparability and advantages of every might be demonstrated
Day 1 API with a deal with the tooling to allow success no matter NETCONF or RESTCONF & Ansible or Terraform. What are the very best practices when shifting away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config exchange operations?
Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from gradual SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to exhibit the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N exhibits the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for holding the operational prices low through the use of the built-in automation capabilities.
Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059]
The Toronto Web Change is likely one of the bigger international Web Change Factors and a vital interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization resolution contains complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) characteristic. This resolution from Blue Flag Consulting interprets actual enterprise questions into actionable visualizations to assist solutions questions like “What’s the hourly error charge for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the whole bandwidth this month for ISP site visitors?” Subjects embrace configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry information via the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the newest campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!
Stroll-in Labs for Fingers-On
These classes can be found inside the world of options all through the length of the Cisco Dwell week
Effectively monitoring machine statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004]
Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) addresses most of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and gives an improved strategy to handle community units. The normal use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale nicely. This lab exhibits gRPC Dial-Out gives extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry information to gather periodic information & triggered occasions.
Discover and take a look at YANG fashions for model-driven telemetry on IOS XE with Cisco’s YANG Suite [LABOPS-2000]
Contemplating shifting away from SNMP-based community monitoring to model-based telemetry? Your journey would possibly start with the duty of researching advanced and interdependent YANG fashions to seek out the info paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and might vastly scale back the time essential for this analysis. YANG Suite abstracts the complexities of coping with YANG fashions of their native textual content format and means that you can simply construct and take a look at community APIs utilizing a range community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, contributors will get helpful hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out frequent duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry initiatives. The lab will observe a typical analysis and testing workflow the place the participant will: • Discover YANG fashions utilizing YANG Suite’s graphical interface • Construct RPCs in YANG Suite • Ship RPCs to stay Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes
Fingers-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Gadgets with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]
This lab session presents a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE units utilizing RESTCONF. Individuals will learn to create their very own customized monitoring software utilizing Python to retrieve and handle machine configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By means of guided workout routines, attendees will achieve hands-on expertise in establishing RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE units, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the top of the session, contributors might be outfitted with the data and expertise to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires fundamental data in programming and API understanding.
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Irrespective of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there’s at all times new and thrilling content material that can assist you to dive even deeper whereas studying about new applied sciences and capabilities for the enterprise community.
Not in a position to attend Cisco Dwell this time? No worries! Take a look at Cisco IOS XE programmability classes from the earlier Cisco Dwell Occasions:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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