Cisco IOS XE affords superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and cut back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs equivalent to NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure gadgets, minimizing handbook errors. The combination of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates gadget onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry supplies real-time information assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout the whole gadget lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options enable our clients to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the slicing fringe of community automation, enabling sooner, safer, and environment friendly community operations.
Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be a part of us at Cisco Dwell AMEA in San Diego June 8 – 12, 2025!
These periods cowl matters starting from getting began with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and matters starting from fashionable approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Change. For the primary time ever, there shall 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 periods under:
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 based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each gadget stage together with gadget onboarding, gadget configuration administration, gadget monitoring and gadget optimization. Many instruments equivalent to YANG Suite shall be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities may also be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization shall be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our gadgets to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
Breakout Classes
Atomic Config Change with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]
Atomic Configuration and atomic config change 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. With 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 change options shall be demonstrated so that you could instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config change. Simply change ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide a whole config and that config shall be set no matter present 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 based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each gadget stage together with gadget onboarding, gadget configuration administration, gadget monitoring and gadget optimization. Many instruments equivalent to YANG Suite shall be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities may also be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization shall be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our gadgets 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 providers 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 instances which are enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are the most effective practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of enormous quantities of telemetry information ? This session covers the whole 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 the earth of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It’s time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the precise approach from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll discover ways to plan your IPv6 transition and how one can use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll be taught in regards to the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may aid you on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow choices equivalent to automated testing and sources of reality may also be lined. This session is designed for community engineers who’ve a necessity to start out implementing IPv6. The session’s target market has little or no prior expertise with Python automation and is pretty new to IPv6 as properly. After the breakout, the attendees have a chance to strive the offered matters in apply via Seize the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Classes
Trendy approaches for IOS XE community gadget administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]
When you handle any variety of IOS XE gadgets immediately then this session is for you as a result of it’ll in a short time make you an professional 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 shall be demonstrated
Day 1 API with a concentrate on the tooling to allow success no matter NETCONF or RESTCONF & Ansible or Terraform. What are the most effective practices when shifting away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config change operations?
Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from sluggish SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to exhibit the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N reveals the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for maintaining the operational prices low by utilizing the built-in automation capabilities.
Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059]
The Toronto Web Change is without doubt one of the bigger world Web Change Factors and a vital interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization answer contains complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) characteristic. This answer 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 complete bandwidth this month for ISP visitors?” Subjects embrace configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry information via the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be a part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the most recent campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!
Stroll-in Labs for Palms-On
These periods can be found inside the world of options all through the length of the Cisco Dwell week
Effectively monitoring gadget statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004]
Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) addresses lots of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and supplies an improved solution to handle community gadgets. The normal use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale properly. This lab reveals gRPC Dial-Out supplies 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 search out the information paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and may significantly cut back the time mandatory 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 spread community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, contributors will get beneficial hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can be taught to carry out widespread duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry tasks. The lab will monitor 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 dwell Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes
Palms-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Gadgets with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]
This lab session affords a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE gadgets utilizing RESTCONF. Members will discover ways to create their very own customized monitoring device utilizing Python to retrieve and handle gadget configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. Via guided workout routines, attendees will acquire hands-on expertise in organising RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE gadgets, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the top of the session, contributors shall be outfitted with the data and abilities to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires primary data in programming and API understanding.
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Irrespective of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there’s all the time 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 capable of attend Cisco Dwell this time? No worries! Try Cisco IOS XE programmability periods from the earlier Cisco Dwell Occasions:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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