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DevNet: Terraform Cloud Operating Model

Source
K. Corbin, HashiCorp Brings a Cloud Operating Model to Network Engineers, Cisco DevNet, 29 APR 2020, 1:06:26
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogA06qWSlEU
For slides and webinar resources visit https://bit.ly/2VNMfIN

 

DevNet: Infrastructure as Code

In the DevNet Associate course a lot of attention goes to "Infrastructure as Code", implying that we should stop to change configurations manually. Immutability and Idempotency are key terms. This videos explains the importance of making infrastructure changes indirectly.

Key Takeaways

Make changes indirectly and automatically
Use small composable modules
Validate the infrastructure works as expected
test entire deployments and not only units

Source
Y. Brikman, 5 Lessons Learned From Writing Over 300,000 Lines of Infrastructure Code, 35:31, HashiCorp, 
Published on Youtube, 27 nov. 2018
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEgE2lcyk4

DevNet: Terraform Intro & Practice Project

For NetAcad users who are familiar with the DevNet Associate course, here is an additional webinar focusing on Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and cloud provider AWS.

Topics:

• Preparation steps for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Terraform
• Amazon Machine Images (AMI), AWS Console
• Terraform language, HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL)
• Terrafom actions: init, plan, apply, destroy
• Declaring resources, ip addressing, subnets, default gateway, security rules
• Installing Apache2

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Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool. Learn how it can be utilized to manage and automate your AWS cloud infrastructure. We'll start off by setting up a free AWS account to play around with and move on to setting up and installing Terraform on a Windows/MAC/Linux machine. From there we'll move on to deploying our first resource through terraform and learning other core concepts. You'll even get a chance to setup a simple web server in AWS.

DevNet: Effective Docker Images

In the DevNet Associate course students learn how to create and run Docker images and how to integrate them in to a pipeline. This video teaches the basics of effective Docker images.

Source
A. Fuller, Creating Effective Docker Images, AWS
Published on Youtube 3 Nov. 2017
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlS5EiapiII

Online Professional Develoment for NetAcad Instructors

The February IPD Week is over with a collection of high quality sessions.  The next IPD Week is from 3 to 7 May.

If you missed some of the sessions, you still have till 14 March to review the recordings/download materials and have your participation hours counted for the certificate of attendance.

- Understanding HTTP using Wireshark and Curl
- Network Infrastructure as a Code
- Packet Tracer 8 Physical Mode in CCNA 7.02
- Are you a NetAcad Wizard? Part 2
- New LMS Demo: Recent Enhancements
- Data Privacy, How concerned are you?
- Network Automation using Ansible Part 2 : Roles and Variables
- Streaming Telemetry for Network Infrastructure
- DevNet Associate: Filtering JSON Data (30 min)
- DevNet Associate: Generating JSON Data (30 min)

You can find all the resources here: https://cs.co/ipdcourse21 (login required)

Python & JSON Workshop -- IPD Week - 25 FEB 2021

Which Python skills do you really need in order to teach DevNet Associate or Emerging Technology Workshops? Attend the webinar during Cisco NetAcad IPD Week on 25 February.

Registration for the Python & JSON Workshop online session
URL: https://1040239.netacad.com/courses/1058892

Tell the world networking is for me

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DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps and Site Reliabality Engineering (SRE) are important parts of the DevNet Associate Certification and the new Netacad DevNet Associate Course. Here is a video from Google where a lot of the concepts are explained with examples.

Topics

• DevOps
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Reduce Organization Silos
• Accept Failure as Normal
• Implement Gradual Change
• Leveraging Tooling & Automation
• Measure Everything
• Service Level Objectives
• Service Level Indicators
• Service Level Agreements
• Toil
• References

Source
Seth Vargo, DevOps Vs. SRE: Competing Standards or Friends? (Cloud Next '19), Google Cloud, YouTube, 10 APR 2019, 44:34
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UyrVqBoCAU&t=4s
→ http://bit.ly/2TRsJXK

Belgian Cisco Academy Instructor on Video

Twinning Project -- Video Materials

The idea of interconnecting or twinning Cisco NetAcad Labs originates from Pierre de Fooz (BiASC & HEPL Liege, Belgium) who has created a working prototype and has performed tests with students from Belgium, Sweden and France. Here is the preparation of the video recordings in which the TWINING concept and the TWINNING REMOTE LAB CHALLENGE are explained.

 VIDEO 1 : WHAT IS TWINNING ? 

Question 1 . Can you explain a problem you have identified regarding lab equipment in Cisco Academies ? 

We have had the opportunity to work with Cisco Academies from different countries in the last few years. We are collaborating with academies in Belgium, Sweden, France, Nigeria,... 

We have noticed that there is a huge discrepancy between Cisco Academies having enough lab equipment and academies in need... 

We can roughly estimate that thousands of Cisco Academies are lacking suitable equipment. 

How to Write an Ansible Module - DEVNET-2215 - CiscoLive

Ansible plays an important part in the new DevNet Associate Certification. This presentation from CiscoLive gives you a very practical introduction into  Ansible module. The presenter is John McDonough, Cisco Systems
For viewing the training video registration is required

URL: https://www.ciscolive.com/global/on-demand-library.html?search=DEVNET-2215#/session/1563474075340001OHRH

Ansible is a configuration management system that can be used to manage data center devices and controllers, from servers and switches to Cisco Intersight and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. There are thousands of Ansible modules that may provide all the functionality you need. However, in the event that the module with the functionality you need is not available you can create your own. In this session, you will learn how to create an Ansible module that follows the guidelines set by the Ansible community. This session includes the building of a module from the ground up. You will learn how to set up your Ansible development environment, gain an understanding of module idempotence and how to appropriately employ the basic constructs of an Ansible module. Using the concepts learned in this session you may even want to contribute your module to Ansible for inclusion in a future release.

 

Introduction to Automating ACI with Ansible - DEVNET-1797 - CiscoLive

Ansible plays an important part in the new DevNet Associate Certification. This presentation from CiscoLive gives you a very clear and practical introduction. The presenter is Thomas Renzy, Cisco Systems, Inc
For viewing the training video registration is required

 

URL: https://www.ciscolive.com/global/on-demand-library.html?search=ansible#/session/1564527382872001cBzY

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a Data Center Architecture with centralized programmability and policy driven capabilities. Ansible is a simple automation language that uses the concept of playbooks to automate configurations of ACI using modules designed for Ansible for configuration provisioning. In this session, we will introduce Ansible and concepts such as playbooks and modules. We will then look at demo of how Ansible can be used to automate ACI provisioning of Tenants as well as looking at deploying a three tier application. We finally will look at scaling ACI playbooks.

Start your network programmability journey -- Videos

"Start your network programmability journey" is a collection of more than twenty videos available on the Cisco DevNet Developer website. The videos offer overviews and insights into the relevant concepts and are filled with concrete examples. Slides of the presentations are available online. Code examples are available on GitHub.

Start your network programmability journey
URL: https://developer.cisco.com/video/net-prog-basics/
Login with NetAcad ID required

Module 1 - Introduction
How to be a Network Engineer in a Programmable Age - 1 video (16 minutes)

Module 2 - Programming Fundamentals
Data Formats - APIs - REST APIs - 6 videos (190+ minutes)

Module 3 - Network Device APIs
YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF  - 5 videos -(110+ minutes)

Module 4 - Network Controllers
DNA Center Platform, ACI Programmig, Meraki Cloud - 7 videos (140+ minutes)

Module 5 - Application Hosting and the Network
Cloud, Fog, Edge, Linux  Guest Shell - 4 videos (75 minutes)

Module 6 - NetDevOps
Configuration Management, Orchestration, Ansible - 4 videos (60+ minutes)

 

Useful Python Libraries for Network Engineers -- YouTube

Cisco DevNet, Season 1, Talk 1 of NetDevOps Live! explores several useful Python on libraries for network engineers. Full details at http://bit.ly/2MDnuam 

Remote Teaching Best Practices -- Cisco NetAcad IPD WEEK

Nico Declerck and Yvan Rooseleer from BiASC organized a webinar about Remote Teaching Best Practices for Cisco NetAcad IPD Week on Thursday 30 April 2020.  The webinar started streaming at 14pm. There were about 150 attendees from all over the world, mainly Networking Academy instructors and coordinators. At the end of the presentation there were a lot of interesting questions from the audience. A video of the conference is available for NetAcad instructors and coordinators.

Webex taking you one step further in online learning and teaching

At BiASC, PXL and HOWEST we have started experimenting with specific hardware to improve online teaching. Sensational!
Additional Webex Support: URL: https://www.netacad.com/learning-never-stops

Webex Teams and Webex Meetings are cloud applications that can be used with nearly all computer systems, portables, tablets and smartphones.

Using the extra devices that are available gives some extra touch that works very well in a professional education environment.

We believe that the video and sound quality should be nearly perfect, because we are distance education professionals.

Here is the complete list of available professional devices: URL: https://projectworkplace.cisco.com/en-us/devices

BiASC favours the Roomkit Plus

More pictures of Webex Devices
URL: https://projectworkplace.cisco.com/en-us/workspaces

Great workspaces to teach and collaborate online

Webex for Education

Now is the time in which online education is more relevant than ever. NetAcad members from BiASC are entitled to use a full Webex admin account (up to a maximum number that we are able to provide). Equally, all other educational institutions can use a free full access account until the end of the current academic year.

URL: https://www.webex.com/webexremoteedu.html
Contact: Michel Assink, massink@cisco.com, +3227785404

Advise for Newcomers and Deep Dive Webinar

This page gives basic information for newcomers along with a video reference to a deep dive explanation of the major components of the Webex ecosystem. 

NetAcad instructors who have been using Webex for distance learning are attracted to this very useful collection of open standard communication and cloud collaboration tools. Webex Teams & Meetings offers all the possibilities that you get from other well known cloud applications. Only in Webex all the tools are integrated.

Participants can join a meeting with a desktop or laptop computer, a tablet or even a smartphone.

Open Standards and Integration
Webex is a combination of functionalities that you find in apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype, Zoom, Dropbox, Adobe Connect ... Moreover, Webex is offering a very intuitive screen sharing, annotation, chat and polling tool. The elegant whiteboard application allows instructors to explain design concepts with the use of visual representations. Meetings can be recorded and all the necessary files can be up- and downloaded. Webex facilitates integration with calendar applications Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Google Gmail. 

Start simple, step by step 
For group meetings and online classes we advise you to use the Webex Meetings tool with your students. This is the most simple for all participants. For small group or individual coaching we advise Webex Teams, in which students can also collaborate without a teacher.

Below is a Beginner's Guide in three languages:

• English: Download 2020-03-02_Webex_eschool_v1.0-eng(1)
• français: Telecharger 2020-03-02_Webex_eschool_v1.0-FR(1)
• Nederlands: Download 2020-03-12_Webex_eschool_v1.3-Dutch(1)
• Additional information on Cisco NetAcad - URL: https://www.netacad.com/learning-never-stops
• Related information: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2020/03/webex-free-remote-teaching.html

A video has been created for you giving background information for professional and educational usage of Webex
We particularly advise to watch the part starting at time 16:24 until 45:54

 

Network Management Augmented Reality & VR/3D Experience

Here is a video showing how to learn to manage networks with augmented reality & VR/3D

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How to Deploy a Complete Network at a Sales Office?

This video is from Cisco on Cisco and offers a behind the scenes view at a Cisco Office. Tracking a real life product deployment in Charlotte, NC with wireless networks, switches, servers and routers.