Discover Cisco IOS XE Automation at Cisco Stay US 2025

Discover Cisco IOS XE Automation at Cisco Stay US 2025

Cisco IOS XE gives superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and scale back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs corresponding to 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 machine onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry gives real-time knowledge assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your complete machine lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options permit our prospects to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the slicing fringe of community automation, enabling sooner, safer, and environment friendly community operations. 

 

Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be a part of us at Cisco Stay AMEA in San Diego June 8 – 12, 2025!  

 

These classes cowl matters starting from getting began with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and matters starting from trendy approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Change. For the primary time ever, there might be a four-hour technical seminar overlaying an outline of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the small print of the upcoming Cisco Stay classes 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 outline of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments corresponding to YANG Suite might be used to display discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities can even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization might 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 Periods 

Atomic Config Change with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604] 

Atomic Configuration and atomic config substitute is changing into an increasing number of requested, and this session dives deep into the newly launched options inside IOS XE and the Catalyst 9000 household. Having the ability to handle configuration in an atomic trend permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config substitute options might be demonstrated to be able to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config substitute. Simply substitute ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide a whole config and that config might be set no matter current configuration.  

Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! [BRKOPS-1401] 

This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE consists of an outline of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments corresponding to YANG Suite might be used to display discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities can even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization might 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 are enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are the perfect practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of enormous quantities of telemetry knowledge ? This session covers the entire 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 suitable means from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll learn to plan your IPv6 transition and easy methods to use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll study in regards to the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may allow you to on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow selections corresponding to automated testing and sources of reality can even be coated. 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 nicely. After the breakout, the attendees have a chance to strive the offered matters in follow via Seize the Flag missions. 

 

DEVNET & Cisco U Periods 

Trendy approaches for IOS XE community machine administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110] 

In the event you handle any variety of IOS XE units immediately then this session is for you as a result of it is going to in a short time make you an skilled within the working system’s Day0-N options to be able 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 might 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 the perfect practices when shifting away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config substitute operations? 

Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from sluggish SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to display the highest sustainability usecases. 

Day N reveals the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for preserving 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 Change is likely one of the bigger world Web Change 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 charge for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the complete bandwidth this month for ISP visitors?” Subjects embody configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry knowledge via the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be a part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the most recent campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights! 

 

Stroll-in Labs for Palms-On 

These classes can be found throughout the world of options all through the period of the Cisco Stay week 

Effectively monitoring machine 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 gives an improved solution to handle community units. The standard use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale nicely. This lab reveals gRPC Dial-Out gives extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry knowledge to gather periodic knowledge & triggered occasions. 

 

Discover and check 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 may start with the duty of researching advanced and interdependent YANG fashions to seek out the info paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and might tremendously scale back the time vital for this analysis. YANG Suite abstracts the complexities of coping with YANG fashions of their native textual content format and permits you to simply construct and check community APIs utilizing a spread community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, individuals will get priceless hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out frequent duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry tasks. The lab will observe a standard 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 reside Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes 

 

Palms-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Gadgets with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001] 

This lab session gives a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE units utilizing RESTCONF. Individuals will learn to create their very own customized monitoring instrument utilizing Python to retrieve and handle machine configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By way 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, individuals might be outfitted with the information and expertise to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires fundamental information in programming and API understanding. 

 

Keep Linked 

Browse the complete session catalog and register for Cisco Stay right here. Wanting ahead to seeing you at Cisco Stay! 

Regardless of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there may be at all times 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! Try Cisco IOS XE programmability classes from the earlier Cisco Stay Occasions: 

 

2025 – Amsterdam 

2024 – Melbourne 

2024 – Las Vegas 

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