Let’s begin with Catalyst Heart, previously generally known as DNA Heart. Traditionally we have been restricted within the availability of Catalyst Heart sandboxes due to the tight integration between {hardware} and software program that the platform had mandated for a few years. As you would possibly know, Catalyst Heart may very well be bought prior to now solely as a {hardware} equipment. In latest instances that requirement has been revised and now we will run Catalyst Heart as a digital machine in AWS and even on premise in a VMware digital surroundings. This growth had made it a lot simpler for our clients in addition to our sandbox staff to extra simply deploy Catalyst Heart cases in digital lab environments. This enables us to scale the Catalyst Heart sandboxes to a lot increased numbers. For the all the time on Catalyst Heart sandboxes, we will now accommodate 100 customers on the similar time whereas for the reservable cases we went from 4 to 25 accessible cases! These sandboxes have been very fashionable over time so I’m pleased that we’re capable of get rather more folks to make use of and reap the benefits of them. The reservable cases may be all yours for as much as 4 days with the small caveat that it takes about 60 minutes to have all of the parts of the sandbox come on-line. They’re at the moment working model 2.3.7.4 of Catalyst Heart and there may be additionally a Cisco ISE server accessible if you wish to deploy SDA materials.
Subsequent, let’s discuss CI/CD pipelines and a model new sandbox now we have so that you can construct and take a look at automation pipelines. I’ve been advocating for utilizing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation and programmability for some time and I had the pleasure of working a workshop on precisely this matter at Ansible Fest in Denver earlier this yr. As a part of the workshop, we had the attendees observe the information accessible on https://developer.cisco.com/docs on find out how to use GitLab along with Ansible, Cisco pyATS, Cisco CML and Cisco NX-OS to construct a totally purposeful CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure automation. I’m tremendous excited to share now with all of you that the sandbox we used for that occasion is publicly accessible within the DevNet sandbox catalog along with the lab (https://developer.cisco.com/studying/labs/ansible-fest-2024-cicd/introduction/) that guides you on find out how to construct and use these pipelines. We’ve as much as 15 of those sandboxes accessible always for as much as 5 days per reservation. Go forward and provides them a attempt to witness the magic of utilizing community automation with CI/CD pipelines.
Final however not least, the staff has accomplished a improbable job at rebuilding the Meraki sandboxes from scratch. Just like the Catalyst Heart sandboxes of the outdated, we have been restricted by {hardware} on what number of Meraki sandboxes we may make accessible to our neighborhood. That has fully modified and now the brand new Meraki sandboxes are fully digital. We’ve serial numbers accessible for digital Meraki gadgets that we will scale to a lot bigger numbers. For the reservable sandboxes, we saved the 2 flavors, small enterprise and enterprise. For each of those you get entry to an MX, MS and MR digital gadgets and for the enterprise one, now we have additionally included an MV digicam digital gadget.
Go forward and provides all these sandboxes a attempt to tell us what you assume.
P.S. We can have extra bulletins about new DevNet sandboxes very quickly. I don’t need to spoil an excessive amount of these bulletins however let’s simply say that for those who have been seeking to take a look at Catalyst 9000 {hardware} switches and didn’t have entry to a lab surroundings, that can change very quickly :).
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