December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
1096 pages
33h 23m
English
Most of the early automation tools were developed for server automation. As use cases of automation increased, many companies developed products that supported automation from day one. Cisco is no different; it developed several products such as the Cisco UCS Server, Cisco Nexus switches, and Cisco ACI, which now support automation tools such as Ansible and HashiCorp Terraform. Automation tools help maintain consistent configuration throughout a network with no or minimal human intervention. Some automation tools are agentless, such as Ansible, which utilizes device-specific APIs or SSH to push configuration to network devices, and do not require installation of an agent. However, ...
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