How to Use Ansible with CML

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How can Ansible help people building simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML)?Similar to Terraform, Ansible is a common, open-source automation tool often used in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) DevOps methodologies. They are both a type of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Infrastructure as Data that allow you to...

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Making Your First Terraform File Doesn’t Have to Be Scary

For the past several years, I’ve tried to give at least one Terraform-centric session at Cisco Live. That’s because they’re fun and make for awesome demos. What’s a technical talk without a demo? But I also see huge crowds every time I talk about Terraform. While I wasn’t...

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Understanding Application Aware Routing (AAR) in Cisco SD-WAN

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One of the main features used in Cisco SD-WAN is Application Aware Routing (AAR). It is often advertised as an intelligent mechanism that automatically changes the routing path of applications, thanks to its active monitoring of WAN circuits to detect anomalies and brownout conditions.Read More: 300-410: Implementing Cisco Enterprise...

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Launch Your Cybersecurity Career with Cisco CyberOps Certifications | Part 1

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Every day, organizations worldwide contend with increasing malicious activity by criminal organizations and nation-state sponsored threat actors. There is a tremendous demand for security professionals who are trained to defend against these malicious threats. These professionals are the backbone of effective security teams. When organizations build security teams to...

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Exploring the Linux ‘ip’ Command

I’ve been talking for several years now about how network engineers need to become comfortable with Linux. I generally position it that we don’t all need to become “big bushy beard-bearing sysadmins.” Rather, network engineers must be able to navigate and work with a Linux-based system confidently. I’m...

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ChatOps: How to Secure Your Webex Bot

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This is the second blog in our series about writing software for ChatOps. In the first post of this ChatOps series, we built a Webex bot that received and logged messages to its running console. In this post, we’ll walk through how to secure your Webex bot with...

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