It’s my pleasure to announce the final availability of a number of new DevNet sandboxes. We’re repeatedly monitoring sandbox utilization and listening to our group in order that we will repeatedly enhance the consumer expertise we’re offering with our sandbox environments.
Let’s begin with Catalyst Heart, previously often called DNA Heart. Traditionally we have been restricted within the availability of Catalyst Heart sandboxes due to the tight integration between {hardware} and software program that the platform had mandated for a few years. As you would possibly know, Catalyst Heart might be bought up to now solely as a {hardware} equipment. In latest occasions that requirement has been revised and now we will run Catalyst Heart as a digital machine in AWS and even on premise in a VMware digital setting. This growth had made it a lot simpler for our clients in addition to our sandbox crew to extra simply deploy Catalyst Heart cases in digital lab environments. This permits us to scale the Catalyst Heart sandboxes to a lot greater numbers. For the at all times on Catalyst Heart sandboxes, we will now accommodate 100 customers on the similar time whereas for the reservable cases we went from 4 to 25 obtainable cases! These sandboxes have been very talked-about over time so I’m joyful that we’re in a position to get rather more folks to make use of and make the most of them. The reservable cases might be all yours for as much as 4 days with the small caveat that it takes about 60 minutes to have all of the elements of the sandbox come on-line. They’re presently operating model 2.3.7.4 of Catalyst Heart and there’s additionally a Cisco ISE server obtainable if you wish to deploy SDA materials.
Subsequent, let’s discuss CI/CD pipelines and a model new sandbox we’ve so that you can construct and take a look at automation pipelines. I’ve been advocating for utilizing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation and programmability for some time and I had the pleasure of operating a workshop on precisely this subject at Ansible Fest in Denver earlier this 12 months. As a part of the workshop, we had the attendees observe the information obtainable on https://developer.cisco.com/docs on how you can use GitLab along with Ansible, Cisco pyATS, Cisco CML and Cisco NX-OS to construct a totally purposeful CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure automation. I’m tremendous excited to share now with all of you that the sandbox we used for that occasion is publicly obtainable within the DevNet sandbox catalog along with the lab (https://developer.cisco.com/studying/labs/ansible-fest-2024-cicd/introduction/) that guides you on how you can construct and use these pipelines. Now we have as much as 15 of those sandboxes obtainable always for as much as 5 days per reservation. Go forward and provides them a attempt to witness the magic of utilizing community automation with CI/CD pipelines.
Final however not least, the crew has carried out a incredible job at rebuilding the Meraki sandboxes from scratch. Much like the Catalyst Heart sandboxes of the previous, we have been restricted by {hardware} on what number of Meraki sandboxes we may make obtainable to our group. That has utterly modified and now the brand new Meraki sandboxes are totally digital. Now we have serial numbers obtainable for digital Meraki units that we will scale to a lot bigger numbers. For the reservable sandboxes, we stored the 2 flavors, small enterprise and enterprise. For each of those you get entry to an MX, MS and MR digital units and for the enterprise one, we’ve additionally included an MV digicam digital machine.
Go forward and provides all these sandboxes a attempt to tell us what you suppose.
P.S. We may have extra bulletins about new DevNet sandboxes very quickly. I don’t wish to spoil an excessive amount of these bulletins however let’s simply say that should you have been seeking to take a look at Catalyst 9000 {hardware} switches and didn’t have entry to a lab setting, that can change very quickly :).
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