Day 1. Network Automation

CCNA 200-301 Exam Topics

  • Explain how automation impacts network management

  • Describe characteristics of REST based APIs (CRUD, HTTP verbs, data encoding)

  • Recognize the capabilities of configuration management mechanisms Puppet, Chef, and Ansible

  • Interpret JSON encoded data

Key Topics

Today we review how network automation impacts network management. Specifically, we review the configuration management tools Puppet, Chef, and Ansible. These tools, as well as other network management tools, make use of Representational State Transfer application programming interfaces (REST APIs) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data.

Data Formats

Data formats provide a way to store and exchange data in a structured format. ...

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