We are pleased to announce the widespread accessibility of several newly available DevNet sandboxes. As part of our ongoing commitment to excellence, we closely track sandbox usage patterns and engage regularly with our team to ensure continuous improvement of the user experience within our sandbox environments.
Catalyst Heart, formerly known as DNA Heart, launches into its musical journey. Historically, our ability to innovate has been hindered by limitations on the use of Catalyst Heart sandboxes, which were heavily dependent on the symbiotic relationship between hardware and software within the platform’s architecture over the past few years. Catalyst Heart was initially available for purchase solely as a hardware component. In recent revisions to our requirements, we are now poised to execute Catalyst Heart as a cloud-based digital entity within Amazon Web Services (AWS), while also accommodating on-premise deployment through VMware’s virtualized environment. This enhancement has greatly simplified the process of deploying Catalyst Heart scenarios in virtual labs, making it easier for both our prospective customers and our sandbox team to do so. This enables us to scale the Catalyst Heart sandboxes to significantly larger numbers. Henceforth, Catalyst Heart sandboxes will support up to 100 concurrent users simultaneously, with a notable increase in reservable environments from 4 to 25 available options. As their reputation has endured through the years, we’re thrilled to now have the opportunity to share these sandboxes with an even broader audience and unlock their value for many more individuals. You’ll have exclusive access to the reservable situations for up to four days, pending a brief 60-minute setup period required for the sandbox’s full functionality. Presently, they are developing Model 2.3.7.4 of the Catalyst Heart application. Additionally, it is recommended that a Cisco ISE server be deployed to facilitate seamless integration with SDA content.
Let’s explore the latest innovations in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and dive into our brand-new sandbox environment where you can design, test, and refine your own automated workflows. For several years, I’ve been championing the adoption of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline infrastructure automation and enhance programmatic control. The opportunity to facilitate a workshop on this topic at Ansible Fest in Denver last year was truly rewarding. As part of the workshop, attendees observed online resources at https://developer.cisco.com/docs, learning how to integrate GitLab with Ansible, Cisco pyATS, Cisco CML, and Cisco NX-OS to build a comprehensive, hands-on CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure automation. Here’s a revised version of your text:
I’m thrilled to share with all of you that the sandbox we used for that occasion is now publicly available in the DevNet sandbox catalog, along with the lab (https://developer.cisco.com/studying/labs/ansible-fest-2024-cicd/introduction/) that provides step-by-step guidance on how to build and utilize these pipelines. We currently maintain a fleet of up to 15 sandboxes, each available for reservation periods of up to five consecutive days. Let your teams harness the power of community-driven automation by integrating continuous integration and delivery pipelines, unlocking seamless workflows that elevate efficiency and productivity.
Finally, but by no means least, the team has done an incredible job of rebuilding the Meraki sandboxes from the ground up. We’ve historically been limited by hardware constraints in terms of how many Meraki sandboxes we can create for our team, just like the Catalyst Heart sandboxes of older designs. The newly launched Meraki sandboxes have seamlessly transitioned to a fully digital format. With our new system in place, we’re poised to issue a vast array of serial numbers for our digital Meraki devices, paving the way for exponential growth and expansion. We store two flavours of reservable sandboxes: small enterprise and enterprise.
Upon registration, participants will receive access to a range of cutting-edge digital tools, including MX, MS, and MR devices, as well as an MV digital camera system specifically designed for the enterprise program.
Let’s go forward with an open mind and see what possibilities arise, giving each sandbox the space to share its unique perspective.
P.S. We will likely receive rapid updates on new DevNet sandboxes in the future.
While you don’t need to exhaustively review every bulletin, it’s worth noting that if you’ve been struggling to evaluate Catalyst 9000 hardware switches without access to a lab environment, that’s about to change.
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