“Automation is to modern infrastructure what blood is to the body. It is core, you cannot have modern infrastructure without it.”
Cisco Nexus Dashboard (ND) provides granular, scalable visibility for deep-dive functionality, maintenance operations, and troubleshooting that benefits data center operation teams. In this session, we will cover how Ansible and ND can be used to provide various automation and orchestration capabilities to operate your Datacenter. We will walk through the process of getting started with the Ansible NDFC collection and then explore the resources available within the collection to help manage your VXLAN EVPN fabric. Next, we will walk you through the IaC (Infrastructure as Code) journey by using Gitlab and Ansible to fully automate the network with a CI/CD pipeline.
During this lab you will work through the following tasks:
