Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment: Reliable and faster software releases with automating builds, tests, and deployment

by Sander Rossel

Overview

Over 90 recipes to maximize automated solutions and policy-drive application profiles using Cisco ACI

Key Features

Confidently provision your virtual and physical infrastructure for application deployment

Integrate Cisco ACI with hypervisors and other third party devices

Packed with powerful recipes to automate your IT operations

Book Description

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a tough architecture that automates IT tasks and accelerates data-center application deployments.

This book focuses on practical recipes to help you quickly build, manage, and customize hybrid environment for your organization using Cisco ACI. You will begin by understanding the Cisco ACI architecture and its major components. You will then configure Cisco ACI policies and tenants. Next you will connect to hypervisors and other third-party devices. Moving on, you will configure routing to external networks and within ACI tenants and also learn to secure ACI through RBAC. Furthermore, you will understand how to set up quality of service and network programming with REST, XML, Python and so on. Finally you will learn to monitor and troubleshoot ACI in the event of any issues that arise.

By the end of the book, you will gain have mastered automating your IT tasks and accelerating the deployment of your applications.

What You Will Learn

Master the Cisco ACI architecture

Discover the ACI fabric with easy-to-follow steps

Set up quality of service within ACI

Configure external networks with Cisco ACI

Integrate with VMware and track VMware virtual machines

Configure apply and verify access policies

Extend or migrate a VMware virtual-machine LAN inside the ACI fabric

Monitor ACI with third party tools and troubleshoot issues

Who This Book Is For

If you are a network administrator, system administrator, or engineer and are aware of the basics of Cisco ACI but want to start using it to automate your tasks, then this book is for you

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787286610
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	10/31/2017
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Stuart Fordham is a networking engineer who focuses on security and DevOps. He is CCIE #49337 (Routing and Switching), along with other qualifications such as CCDP, CEH, RHCSA, and MCSE. He has also been a Cisco Champion for 2017 and has authored a series of networking books. He is the network manager for a leading global Communication-as-a-Service company and has worked for hedge funds, the government, and the National Health Service.

Table of Contents

1. Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric
2. Introduction
3. Understanding ACI and the APIC
4. An overview of the ACI fabric
5. Converting Cisco from Nexus NX-OS mode to ACI mode
6. ACI fabric overlay
7. An introduction to the GUI
8. Configuring Policies and Tenants
9. Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties)
10. Routing in ACI
11. ACI Security
12. Implementing Quality of Service in ACI
13. Network Programmability with ACI
14. Monitoring ACI
15. Troubleshooting ACI
16. An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI