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    Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU)

    Cisco - Security
    The Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU) training gives you a broad overview of network automation skills. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs, you will learn the fundamentals of automation such as working on model-driven programmability solutions with representational state transfer configuration protocol (RESTCONF) and network configuration protocol (NETCONF) protocols. The training also covers data formats and types, including Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Yaml Ain’t Markup Language (YAML), and Yet Another Next Generation (YANG), and their value in network automation, along with DevOps tools such as Ansible and Git.

    How You'll Benefit

    This training will help you:

    Gain an overview of the skills you need to become a next-generation engineer
    Prepare to accelerate network automation in your organization
    Increase collaboration across internal and external teams using version control systems
    Earn 16 CE credits toward recertification

    Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU) Objectives

    • After taking this course you should be able to:
    • Articulate the role network automation and programmability play in the context of end-to-end network management and operations
    • Define and differentiate between waterfall and agile software development methodologies
    • Interpret and troubleshoot Python scripts with fundamental programming constructs built for network automation use cases
    • Describe how DevOps principles
    • tools
    • and pipelines can be applied to network operations
    • Understand the role of network automation development environments and associated technologies such as Python virtual environments
    • Vagrant
    • and Docker
    • Understand and construct HTTP-based application programming interface (API) calls to network devices
    • Articulate the differences among and common use cases for XML
    • JSON
    • YAML
    • and protocol buffer (protobuf)
    • Construct and interpret Python scripts using the Python requests module to automate devices that have HTTP-based APIs
    • Understand the role YANG plays in network automation
    • Understand that several tools exist to simplify working with YANG models
    • Describe the functionality of RESTCONF and NETCONF and the differences between them
    • Construct Ansible playbooks to configure network devices and retrieve operational state data from them
    • Build Jinja2 templates and YAML data structures to generate desired state configurations

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    • Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU) Prerequisites

      Who should attend
      This course is designed primarily for customer engineers and systems engineers in the following job roles:

      Automation Architects
      Automation Engineers
      Consulting Systems Engineers
      DevOps Engineers
      Network Administrators
      Network Architects
      Network Consulting Engineers
      Network Design Engineers
      Network Engineers
      Network Operators
      Network Reliability Engineers
      Sales Engineers
      Site Reliability Engineers
      Systems Engineers
      Technical Solutions Architects
      Application Developers
      Collaboration Developers
      Collaboration Solutions Architects
      IT Directors
      Mobile Developers
      Network Operations Center (NOC) Managers
      Software Architects
      Web Developers
      Prerequisites
      There are no formal prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:

      Routing and switching including open shortest path first (OSPF), border gateway protocol (BGP), and basic configuration features such as interfaces, simple network management protocol (SNMP), and static routes
      Fundamentals of Python data structures and programming constructs, such as loops, conditionals, and classes, or the equivalent of 3–6 months of experience writing Python scripts
      Basic Linux commands for navigating the file system and executing scripts
      Knowledge of working with text editors
      The following recommended Cisco offering may help you meet these prerequisites:

      Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)

      Live Labs:

      Use Network Automation Scripts
      Enforce Python Fundamentals on the Interactive Interpreter
      Automate Networks with Netmiko
      Use the Git Version-Control System and Collaborate on an Internal Project
      Build Reproduceable Automation Environments
      Use HTTP-Based APIs with Postman
      Explore YAML and JSON Data
      Consume HTTP-Based APIs with Python Requests
      Explore YANG Tools
      Explore RESTCONF with Python
      Explore NETCONF with Python
      Configure Network Devices with Ansible
      Collect Network Data with Ansible
      Build and Deploy Configurations with Ansible

    • Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU) Course Format

      Live Virtual Course

    • Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU) Outline

      Examining Network Management and Operations
      Exploring Software Development Methodologies
      Using Python for Network Automation
      Describing NetDevOps: DevOps for Networking
      Managing Automation Development Environments
      Introducing HTTP Network APIs
      Reviewing Data Formats and Data Encoding
      Using Python Requests to Automate HTTP-Based APIs
      Exploring YANG
      Using YANG Tools
      Automating Model-Driven APIs with Python
      Introducing Ansible for Network Automation
      Templating Configurations with Jinja2