Chapter 6. Network Programmability with Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI is a next generation, software defined, data center network solution. ACI automates network deployments and operations, freeing network engineers and managers from mundane but complex, network tasks. ACI is an open system, featuring a robust API to network programmability and integrations.
One of the major innovations of ACI is the policy model. Policy provides an abstracted configuration or state of the network on a per-application basis. The abstracted configuration greatly simplifies Cloud integration and programmability by suppressing the complex details the network and centrally managing configurations. Abstraction enables policy administrators to utilize network features with minimal ...
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