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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.

Internet Traffic will increase to 396 exabytes per month by 2022

Internet traffic has seen a compounded annual growth rate of 30 percent or higher over the last 5 years. It is anticipated that by 2022:

• IP traffic will increase to 396 exabytes per month
• 1/3 of the Internet traffic will be in metropolitan service areas
• More than 28 billion devices and connections will be online
• 48 percent of all connections will be video-capable

The forthcoming release of 5G enabled devices will continue the insatiable demand for bandwidth and network performance through better speeds and reduced latency. We will see new types of traffic generated from connected devices, online gaming platforms, video conferencing platforms, which will result in a massive increase in the number of devices deployed in the network. To keep pace with this growth, network providers need to focus on simple, secure, consistent, and highly automated operations in all areas of the network.

 

Find Yourself in the Future --- Presentations and Recordings

The goal of "Find Yourself in the Future" is to connect NetAcad and other students to Cisco experts talking about the latest technology trends in the industry.  

The current four-part series supports CCNA v7 curricula adoption topics include:

• Top 10 technology predictions of the future
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
• Cybersecurity
• Automation and Programmability

URL: https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_sg/partners/future-yourself/presentations.html

Video introducing NetAcad with images from the Benelux

Recent images from Belgian and Benelux teachers and students to explain NetAcad to the world

New Certifications, more Generic, more Specific

CCNA Certification firstly becomes more "generic". Moreover, it becomes also more "specialistic". I am very happy for Devnet certification and for the new names of the specific certifications tracks: Enterprise; Security; Datacenter; Service Provider; Collaboration.

Watch this video for a vivid explanation with Susie Wee from Cisco.

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2019 - Best Security Practices

John Strand and Jake Williams - SANS Senior Instructors along with John Pescatore, SANS Director of Emerging Security Trends discuss your best strategies to consider for 2019 to build and maintain your cybersecurity defenses. This 2 hour webcast includes talks from John Strand and Jake and is followed by a lively panel of all three experts. Sponsored by Cisco.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=637&v=PrDgkPBgW68

 

 

The role of Technical Marketing Engineers at Cisco

Cisco regularly gives presentations about jobs at Cisco and partners. This presentation offers background information by Cisco about building products and jobs that support partners and customers to use the products. Cisco Technical Marketing Engineers (TME) play an important role, because they are both technical and communicative.

To build a product like Catalyst 9200 , we need to ask:
Do we really need to build a new product?
What are customers looking for?
How many and what type of ports do we need?
What software features are required?
How will we license and price this product?

Once the product is built, we need to:
Educate our sales teams about it
Inform our customers of the new product
Write technical collateral to help with using it
Collect customer feedback and continue improving it

Speakers

Jeff McLaughlin, Director of Technical Marketing
Kanu Gupta, Technical Marketing Engineer
Cisco Enterprise Networking

Video (registration necessary): https://www.netacad.com/careers/webinars/career-preparation/featured-jobs-at-cisco-webinar-series?fbclid=IwAR3IYHCMuKe7PvNT7OGzu073PHF-l1s9Xn_JdJYfwcl_TXXiE9C98p_FTeY

PDF Presentation: Download Featured_jobs_at_cisco_tme_session1