ACI Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Chapter 8

Automation and Orchestration

In this chapter, you will learn about Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) automation and orchestration. This chapter covers the following topics:

• The difference between automation and orchestration

• The REST API

• Automating tasks using the native REST API: JSON and XML

• Automating tasks using Ansible

• Orchestration through UCS Director

The Difference Between Automation and Orchestration

The key business growth enabler in the industry today is the speedy provisioning of the application-hosting infrastructure. Companies cannot survive if their applications are not available to provide services to their customers. Application developers have therefore adopted a model commonly known as DevOps, which ...