Cisco IOS XE affords superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and scale back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs resembling NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure units, minimizing guide errors. The combination of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates system onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry supplies real-time information assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your entire system lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options permit our clients to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the slicing fringe of community automation, enabling quicker, safer, and environment friendly community operations.
Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be part of us at Cisco Stay 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 Exchange. For the primary time ever, there can be a four-hour technical seminar protecting an summary of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the small print of the upcoming Cisco Stay 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 consists of an summary of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each system stage together with system onboarding, system configuration administration, system monitoring and system optimization. Many instruments resembling YANG Suite can be used to show discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities may even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization can be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our units to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
Breakout Classes
Atomic Config Exchange with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]
Atomic Configuration and atomic config change is turning into increasingly more 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 vogue permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config change options can be demonstrated so to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config change. Simply change ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide an entire config and that config can 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 consists of an summary of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each system stage together with system onboarding, system configuration administration, system monitoring and system optimization. Many instruments resembling YANG Suite can be used to show discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities may even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization can be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our units 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 companies are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? On the finish of this session not solely will you have the ability to reply this query with confidence however additionally, you will have a deep understanding of the options and actual world use circumstances which can be enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are one of the best practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of huge 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 best method from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll discover ways to plan your IPv6 transition and use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll study concerning 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 resembling automated testing and sources of fact may even 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 risk to attempt the offered matters in follow via Seize the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Classes
Trendy approaches for IOS XE community system administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]
For those who handle any variety of IOS XE units immediately then this session is for you as a result of it would in a short time make you an skilled within the working system’s Day0-N options so to handle the community extra effectively. Day0 consists of 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 can be demonstrated
Day 1 API with a give attention to the tooling to allow success no matter NETCONF or RESTCONF & Ansible or Terraform. What are one of the best practices when shifting away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config change operations?
Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from gradual SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to show the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N reveals the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for protecting the operational prices low through the use of the built-in automation capabilities.
Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059]
The Toronto Web Trade is likely one of the bigger world Web Trade Factors and a essential interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization resolution consists of complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) characteristic. This resolution from Blue Flag Consulting interprets actual enterprise questions into actionable visualizations to assist solutions questions like “What’s the hourly error fee for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the whole 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 part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the newest campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!
Stroll-in Labs for Arms-On
These periods can be found inside the world of options all through the length of the Cisco Stay week
Effectively monitoring system statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004]
Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) addresses most of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and supplies an improved strategy to handle community units. 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 complicated 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 vastly scale 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 invaluable hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out frequent duties required to help model-driven automation and telemetry tasks. The lab will observe 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
Arms-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Gadgets with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]
This lab session affords a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE units utilizing RESTCONF. Members will discover ways to create their very own customized monitoring instrument utilizing Python to retrieve and handle system configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By means of guided workouts, attendees will achieve hands-on expertise in establishing RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE units, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the tip of the session, contributors can be outfitted with the information and abilities to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires primary information in programming and API understanding.
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Regardless of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there’s all the time new and thrilling content material that will help you to dive even deeper whereas studying about new applied sciences and capabilities for the enterprise community.
Not in a position to attend Cisco Stay this time? No worries! Take a look at Cisco IOS XE programmability periods from the earlier Cisco Stay Occasions:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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