Chapter 18

Configuration Management and Orchestration

This chapter covers the following official ENCOR 350-401 exam objective:

  • Images 6.7 Compare agent vs. agentless orchestration tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and SaltStack

Traditionally, network changes were made manually on individual Cisco network devices. For example, to add a handful of new VLANs or make firewall changes across the campus and data center, someone needed to log on to each device and make the changes manually. Today, we have configuration management tools that achieve the same results faster and more reliably. When you have a defined manual workflow to perform a set of ...

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