Book description
Over 90 recipes to maximize automated solutions and policy-drive application profiles using Cisco ACI
About This Book
Confidently provision your virtual and physical infrastructure for application deployment
Integrate Cisco ACI with hypervisors and other third party devices
Packed with powerful recipes to automate your IT operations
Who This Book Is For
If you are a network administrator, system administrator, or engineer and are aware of the basics of Cisco ACI but want to start using it to automate your tasks, then this book is for you
What You Will Learn
Master the Cisco ACI architecture
Discover the ACI fabric with easy-to-follow steps
Set up quality of service within ACI
Configure external networks with Cisco ACI
Integrate with VMware and track VMware virtual machines
Configure apply and verify access policies
Extend or migrate a VMware virtual-machine LAN inside the ACI fabric
Monitor ACI with third party tools and troubleshoot issues
In Detail
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a tough architecture that automates IT tasks and accelerates data-center application deployments.
This book focuses on practical recipes to help you quickly build, manage, and customize hybrid environment for your organization using Cisco ACI. You will begin by understanding the Cisco ACI architecture and its major components. You will then configure Cisco ACI policies and tenants. Next you will connect to hypervisors and other third-party devices. Moving on, you will configure routing to external networks and within ACI tenants and also learn to secure ACI through RBAC. Furthermore, you will understand how to set up quality of service and network programming with REST, XML, Python and so on. Finally you will learn to monitor and troubleshoot ACI in the event of any issues that arise.
By the end of the book, you will gain have mastered automating your IT tasks and accelerating the deployment of your applications.
Style and approach
A set of exciting recipes to automate your IT operations related to datacenters, the Cloud, and networking tasks
Table of contents
- Preface
- Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric
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Configuring Policies and Tenants
- Introduction
- Creating fabric policies
- Creating access policies
- Creating tenants
- Configuring bridge domains
- Configuring contexts
- Creating application network profiles
- Creating endpoint groups
- Using contracts between tenants
- Creating filters
- Creating contracts within tenants
- Creating management contracts
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Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties)
- Introduction
- Installing device packages
- Creating VMM domains and integrating VMWare
- Associating vCenter domains with a tenant
- Deploying the AVS
- Discovering VMWare endpoints
- Adding virtual machines to a tenant
- Tracking ACI endpoints
- Integrating with A10
- Deploying the ASAv
- Integrating with OpenStack
- Integrating with F5
- Integrating with Citrix NetScaler
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Routing in ACI
- Introduction
- Creating a DHCP relay
- Utilizing DNS
- Routing with BGP
- Configuring a layer-3 outside interface for tenant networks
- Associating a bridge domain with an external network
- Using route reflectors
- Routing with OSPF
- Routing with EIGRP
- Using IPv6 within ACI
- Setting up multicast for ACI tenants
- Configuring multicast on the bridge domain and interfaces
- ACI transit routing and route peering
- ACI Security
- Implementing Quality of Service in ACI
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Network Programmability with ACI
- Introduction
- Browsing the object store using the Object Store Browser
- Programming the ACI through REST
- Authenticating through REST and XML
- Creating a tenant using REST and XML
- Deleting a tenant using REST and XML
- Creating an APN and an EPG using REST and XML
- Creating an application profile and EPG using REST
- Authenticating through REST and JSON
- Creating a tenant using REST and JSON
- Using the Python SDK
- Logging into the APIC using Cobra
- Creating a tenant using the SDK
- Monitoring ACI
- Troubleshooting ACI
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An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI
- Introduction
- Setting up in-band and out-of-band access to the nodes
- Creating the security domain
- Creating the VLAN domain
- Creating the VMWare domain
- Creating the tenant
- Creating the VRF
- Creating the bridge domains
- Creating the applications and EPGs
- Creating the contract
- Creating an L4-L7 device
- Creating service templates
- Setting up the client VMs
Product information
- Title: Cisco ACI Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781787129214
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