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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Inside the Cisco Modeling Labs 2.6 Workbench Revamp

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Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) 2.6, the latest version of our premier network virtualization platform, is finally here. CML 2.6 offers quite a list of useful tools, with additions like Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud deployment and a new Maintenance mode for system admins.However, I’m here to discuss the...

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Make your network yours with CML 2.5 annotations

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Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) 2.5 arrives with annotations, a new feature for all CML license levels. When learning and designing, annotations let you get the most out of your labs. Annotations allow you to include all the documentation on how parts of the network work, details about your...

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Cisco Modeling Labs 2.5: Now with Resource Limiting

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Whether you’re using a large virtual machine or beefy hardware server, running labs with a lot of nodes or labs with resource-hungry nodes in Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) can require a lot of memory/RAM and CPUs. But this can become especially problematic in a multi-user system—until now.Cisco Modeling...

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The Rise and Rise of DevOps Adoption

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Thriving in the fast-changing world of technology means staying abreast of the latest trends and advancements. In recent years, one such trend—DevOps— has surged in popularity and usage. DevOps has become one of the most sought-after cultures to be adopted by organizations, with DevOps engineering roles among the...

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CML 2.4 Now Supports Horizontal Scale With Clustering

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When will CML 2 support clustering?This was the question we heard most when we released Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) 2.0 — and it was a great one, at that. So, we listened. CML 2.4 now offers a clustering feature for CML-Enterprise and CML-Higher Education licenses, which supports the...

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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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