Discover Cisco IOS XE Automation at Cisco Stay US 2025

Cisco IOS XE affords superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and cut back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs resembling NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure gadgets, minimizing guide errors. The combination of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates machine onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry offers real-time knowledge assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout the complete machine 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 part of us at Cisco Stay AMEA in San Diego June 8 – 12, 2025!

These periods cowl subjects starting from getting began with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and subjects starting from fashionable approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Exchange. 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 main points of the upcoming Cisco Stay periods under:

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 contains an outline of the YANG based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments resembling YANG Suite can be used to show discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities may also 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 Exchange with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]

Atomic Configuration and atomic config change is changing into increasingly requested, and this session dives deep into the newly launched options inside IOS XE and the Catalyst 9000 household. Having the ability to handle configuration in an atomic trend permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config change options can be demonstrated with the intention to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config change. Simply change ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide a whole config and that config can be set no matter present configuration.

Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! [BRKOPS-1401]

gRPC, gNMI, gNOI… Oh My! An Enterprise Community Automation Journey [BRKDEV-2017]

What number of Google API micro companies are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? On the finish of this session not solely will you be capable to reply this query with confidence however additionally, you will have a deep understanding of the options and actual world use instances which can be enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are the very best practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of huge quantities of telemetry knowledge ? This session covers the whole 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 fitting manner from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll discover ways to plan your IPv6 transition and learn how to 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 choices resembling automated testing and sources of fact may also be lined. This session is designed for community engineers who’ve a necessity to begin implementing IPv6. The session’s target market has little or no prior expertise with Python automation and is pretty new to IPv6 as effectively. After the breakout, the attendees have a chance to attempt the introduced subjects in apply by Seize the Flag missions.

DEVNET & Cisco U Classes

Trendy approaches for IOS XE community machine administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]

In case you handle any variety of IOS XE gadgets straight then this session is for you as a result of it’s going to in a short time make you an skilled within the working system’s Day0-N options with the intention to handle the community extra effectively. Day0 contains 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 give attention to the tooling to allow success no matter NETCONF or RESTCONF & Ansible or Terraform. What are the very best practices when shifting away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config change operations?

Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from sluggish SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to show the highest sustainability usecases.

Day N reveals the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for protecting 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 Change is among the bigger world Web Change Factors and a crucial interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization resolution contains complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) function. This resolution from Blue Flag Consulting interprets actual enterprise questions into actionable visualizations to assist solutions questions like “What’s the hourly error price for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the complete bandwidth this month for ISP site visitors?” Matters embody configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry knowledge by the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the newest campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!

Stroll-in Labs for Fingers-On

These periods can be found throughout the world of options all through the length of the Cisco Stay week

Effectively monitoring machine statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004]

Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) addresses most of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and offers an improved technique to handle community gadgets. The normal use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale effectively. This lab reveals gRPC Dial-Out offers extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry knowledge to gather periodic knowledge & triggered occasions.

Discover and take a look at 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 would possibly start with the duty of researching complicated 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 drastically cut back the time vital for this analysis. YANG Suite abstracts the complexities of coping with YANG fashions of their native textual content format and means that you can simply construct and take a look at community APIs utilizing a spread community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, members will get useful hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out widespread duties required to help 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

Fingers-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Gadgets with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]

This lab session affords a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE gadgets utilizing RESTCONF. Contributors will discover ways to create their very own customized monitoring instrument utilizing Python to retrieve and handle machine configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By guided workout routines, attendees will acquire hands-on expertise in organising RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE gadgets, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the top of the session, members can be geared up with the information and abilities to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires primary information in programming and API understanding.

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Irrespective of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there may be at all times 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 Stay this time? No worries! Try Cisco IOS XE programmability periods from the earlier Cisco Stay Occasions:

2025 – Amsterdam

2024 – Melbourne

2024 – Las Vegas