Cisco IOS XE provides superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and scale back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs similar to NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure gadgets, minimizing guide errors. The mixing of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates gadget onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry supplies real-time knowledge assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your complete gadget lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options enable our clients to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the reducing fringe of community automation, enabling sooner, safer, and environment friendly community operations.
Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be a part of us at Cisco Reside AMEA in San Diego June 8 – 12, 2025!
These periods cowl matters starting from getting began with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and matters starting from fashionable approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Substitute. For the primary time ever, there can be a four-hour technical seminar masking an outline of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the small print of the upcoming Cisco Reside periods beneath:
Technical Seminar
Automating All Issues YANG, On a regular basis – Programmability and Automation 101 with Cisco IOS XE [TECOPS-2314]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE consists of an outline of the YANG based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each gadget stage together with gadget onboarding, gadget configuration administration, gadget monitoring and gadget optimization. Many instruments similar to YANG Suite can be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities will even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization can be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our gadgets to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
Breakout Classes
Atomic Config Substitute with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]
Atomic Configuration and atomic config substitute is turning into an increasing number of requested, and this session dives deep into the newly launched options inside IOS XE and the Catalyst 9000 household. With the ability to handle configuration in an atomic style permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config substitute options can be demonstrated so to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config substitute. Simply substitute ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide an entire config and that config can be set no matter present configuration.
Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! [BRKOPS-1401]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE consists of an outline of the YANG based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each gadget stage together with gadget onboarding, gadget configuration administration, gadget monitoring and gadget optimization. Many instruments similar to YANG Suite can be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities will even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization can be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our gadgets to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
gRPC, gNMI, gNOI… Oh My! An Enterprise Community Automation Journey [BRKDEV-2017]
What number of Google API micro providers are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? On the finish of this session not solely will you be capable of reply this query with confidence however additionally, you will have a deep understanding of the options and actual world use instances which are enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are the most effective practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of enormous quantities of telemetry knowledge ? This session covers the entire Programmability & Automation lifecycle of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 when managed utilizing gRPC, gNMI and gNOI… oh my!
The Community of the Future is Right here – Let’s Automate your IPv6 deployment with Python! [BRKOPS-2223]
IPv6 marks a brand new horizon on the earth of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It’s time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the appropriate approach from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll learn to plan your IPv6 transition and use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll study in regards to the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may allow you to on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow selections similar to automated testing and sources of fact will even be lined. This session is designed for community engineers who’ve a necessity to begin implementing IPv6. The session’s audience has little or no prior expertise with Python automation and is pretty new to IPv6 as nicely. After the breakout, the attendees have a risk to strive the introduced matters in follow by means of Seize the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Classes
Fashionable approaches for IOS XE community gadget administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]
In the event you handle any variety of IOS XE gadgets straight then this session is for you as a result of it can in a short time make you an skilled within the working system’s Day0-N options so to handle the community extra effectively. Day0 consists of the lengthy standing ZTP Zero-Contact provisioning however when encryption is required end-to-end then the Safe ZTP options can be utilized. A comparability and advantages of every can be demonstrated
Day 1 API with a deal with the tooling to allow success no matter NETCONF or RESTCONF & Ansible or Terraform. What are the most effective practices when shifting away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config substitute operations?
Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from gradual SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to exhibit the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N reveals the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for preserving the operational prices low through the use of the built-in automation capabilities.
Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059]
The Toronto Web Alternate is likely one of the bigger international Web Alternate Factors and a essential interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization answer consists of complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) characteristic. This answer from Blue Flag Consulting interprets actual enterprise questions into actionable visualizations to assist solutions questions like “What’s the hourly error charge for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the complete bandwidth this month for ISP site visitors?” Subjects embody configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry knowledge by means of the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be a part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the most recent campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!
Stroll-in Labs for Palms-On
These periods can be found inside the world of options all through the period of the Cisco Reside week
Effectively monitoring gadget statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004]
Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) addresses lots of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and supplies an improved approach to handle community gadgets. The normal use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale nicely. This lab reveals gRPC Dial-Out supplies extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry knowledge to gather periodic knowledge & triggered occasions.
Discover and check YANG fashions for model-driven telemetry on IOS XE with Cisco’s YANG Suite [LABOPS-2000]
Contemplating shifting away from SNMP-based community monitoring to model-based telemetry? Your journey may start with the duty of researching advanced and interdependent YANG fashions to search out the information paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and might significantly scale back the time needed for this analysis. YANG Suite abstracts the complexities of coping with YANG fashions of their native textual content format and permits you to simply construct and check community APIs utilizing a range community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, contributors will get worthwhile hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out frequent duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry initiatives. The lab will monitor a typical analysis and testing workflow the place the participant will: • Discover YANG fashions utilizing YANG Suite’s graphical interface • Construct RPCs in YANG Suite • Ship RPCs to dwell Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes
Palms-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Units with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]
This lab session provides a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE gadgets utilizing RESTCONF. Members will learn to create their very own customized monitoring device utilizing Python to retrieve and handle gadget configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By guided workout routines, attendees will achieve hands-on expertise in establishing RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE gadgets, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the tip of the session, contributors can be geared up with the data and expertise to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires primary data in programming and API understanding.
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Irrespective of the place you might be in your programmability and automation journey there’s all the time new and thrilling content material that can assist you to dive even deeper whereas studying about new applied sciences and capabilities for the enterprise community.
Not capable of attend Cisco Reside this time? No worries! Try Cisco IOS XE programmability periods from the earlier Cisco Reside Occasions:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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