2017-10 Webinar Wednesday - Network Engineer in A Programmable Age

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Welcome to Webinar Wednesday with Cisco DevNet
How to be a Network Engineer in a

Programmable Age
Hank Preston, ccie 38336
NetDevOps Evangelist
@hfpreston
@CiscoDevNet
#DevNet
About the Speaker and Panelist
Hank Preston Matt Denapoli Ashley Roach

@hfpreston @denapom11 @aroach
Developer Evangelist Principal Developer Evangelist
NetDevOps Evangelist Focus: CMX, Meraki, Coding Focus: API and Cloud
Focus: Network Programmability Fundamentals Cisco DevNet
Cisco DevNet
Cisco DevNet
Topics to Cover
• The Network Engineer of Old
The Network Engineer Evolves
• The Four Ages of
Networking
• Cloud to the Rescue rtr$ conf t
• Today’s Network Engineer
The Network Engineer of Old
Meet Carl the Network Engineer
Programming Skills Networking Skills

• TCL • Spanning-Tree
• EEM • Routing Protocols
• Expect Scripts • QoS
• VPN Design
• Spanning-Tree
• VOIP
• Fibre Channel
• Security Policy
• MPLS
• Spanning-Tree
• Did I mention Spanning-Tree?
The Network…
The Network…
The Network…
The Network…
The Network…
The Network…
The OSI Model of Networking…
L7: Application
Please don’t ask
L6: Presentation
about this…
L5: Session
L4: Transport Oh Yeah… We Got

L3: Network this
L2: Data Link

Black Magic
L1: Physical
The Four Ages of
Networking
Stone Age
Spanning Tree
VLANs
The Four Ages of Networking…..

Stone Age Bronze Age
Spanning Tree Routing Protocols
VLANs WAN Design
IP-magedon

Stone Age Bronze Age The Renaissance
Spanning Tree Routing Protocols SDN
VLANs WAN Design OpenFlow
IP-magedon Controllers
Overlays
MP-BGP
VXLAN
Micro-Segmentation
White Box

Stone Age Bronze Age The Renaissance Programmable Age
Spanning Tree Routing Protocols SDN Cloud
VLANs WAN Design OpenFlow Python
IP-magedon Controllers REST / APIs
Overlays NETCONF / YANG
MP-BGP “Fabrics”
VXLAN Network Function
Micro-Segmentation Virtualization (NFV)
White Box Containers

DevOps
NetDevOps!
App Economy Internet of Things Tech Unicorns
User Expectations and If it isn’t connected, don’t Low barrier of entry for
Agility bother… disruptors
The Cloud You Plan to
Build J
The Cloud You Plan to
Build J
The Cloud You End

Up With L
The New Infrastructure Stack
Development Vagrant, Docker, Vim, Slack,
Environment Spark, Git
Users and
Developers
CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

Operating System Ubuntu, Microsoft
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Architects and Cisco Confidential Infrastructure UCS/ACI, HP, vSphere/NSX
Operators
GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Delivery Pipeline Team City, Drone, Puppet,
Users and Ansible, Chef
Developers
Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,

and Automation OpenStack, AWS, CloudCenter


Operators

Developers
Scheduling and
Placement Docker/Swarm, Kubernetes,
Mesosphere, Tectonic, Rancher,
Rocket
Container Layer
Applications and HAProxy, Cassandra, RabbitMQ,

Middleware Hadoop, Consul



Operators

Developers
Scheduling and
Rocket
Container Layer

DevOps
Engineers Middleware Hadoop, Consul



Operators

Developers
Scheduling and
PaaS
Rocket
Container Layer

DevOps
Engineers Middleware Hadoop, Consul

IaaS

Operators
Today’s Network Engineer
Carl’s 3 Step Approach to Network
Programmability
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
• Python • Linux Skills • Linux Networking
• REST APIs • Ansible • Container Networking
• JSON/XML • Docker • NFV
• git/GitHub • NETCONF/YANG
As Needed
• Network Controllers
• IOT Networking
• Cloud Networking
• NFV
• ”DevOps”
Carl has Embraced Programmability!
Core Programming “New” Networking Stuff

• Python • Network Controllers
• REST APIs • NETCONF/YANG
• JSON/XML • Container Networking
• Linux Skills • Cloud Networking
• Ansible • Linux Networking
(Puppet/Chef/etc) • IOT Networking
• git/GitHub • NFV
• Docker
• ”DevOps”
Summing up
Review
• We looked back on the history of the network and network
engineering
• Traveled through the Four Ages of Networking
• Talked about the impact “Cloud” has had on IT
• Considered the skills a network engineer needs today
So what now?
• Join DevNet and engage with the
community
• Learning Labs
• Development Sandboxes
• Code Samples and API Guides
• Earn some Badges!

• Write some code in Sandboxes
• Tweet me a link to your code on
GitHub
Thanks for Coming!
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• Recording will be sent out shortly
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About the Webinar

• Ask a question in the Q&A panel, send to All Panelists

How to be a Network Engineer in a

Hank Preston Matt Denapoli Ashley Roach

• Today’s Network Engineer

Programming Skills Networking Skills

L4: Transport Oh Yeah… We Got

L2: Data Link

The Four Ages of Networking…..

The Four Ages of Networking…..

The Four Ages of Networking…..

White Box Containers

The Cloud You End

CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

© 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,

CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

© 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Applications and HAProxy, Cassandra, RabbitMQ,

Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,

CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

© 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Applications and HAProxy, Cassandra, RabbitMQ,

Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,

CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

© 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Applications and HAProxy, Cassandra, RabbitMQ,

Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,

© 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Core Programming “New” Networking Stuff

• Earn some Badges!

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