Intent Networks

How to be a Network
Engineer in a
Programmable Age
Cisco DevNet Webinar Series

Speaker: Hank Preston | Cisco DevNet

Hostess: Kara Sullivan | Cisco Networking Academy
25 October 2017
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Cisco DevNet Series
Session 1: Intro to Software & Programmability (Available On-Demand)
Session 2: Intro to Coding (Available On-Demand)
Session 3: Intent Networks – Today!

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Joining You Hank Preston III
Developer Evangelist
Today: DevNet, Cisco

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Topics to Cover
Tomorrow’s Network Engineers!
• The Network Engineer of Old
• The Four Ages of Networking
• Cloud to the Rescue
• The Programmable Network
Engineer

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The Network Engineer of Old
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Meet Carl the Network Engineer

Programming Skills Networking Skills

• TCL • Spanning-Tree
• EEM • Routing Protocols
• Expect Scripts • QoS
• VPN Design
• Spanning-Tree
• VOIP
• Fibre Channel
• Security Policy
• MPLS
• Spanning-Tree
• Did I mention Spanning-Tree?

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The Network…

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The Network…

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The Network…

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The Network…

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The Network…

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The Network…

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The OSI Model of Networking…
L7: Application
Please don’t
L6: Presentation
ask about this…
L5: Session

L4: Transport Oh Yeah… We

L3: Network Got this
L2: Data Link
Black Magic
L1: Physical
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The Four Ages of Networking

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Stone Age
Spanning Tree
VLANs

The Four Ages of Networking…..

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Stone Age Bronze Age
Spanning Tree Routing Protocols
VLANs WAN Design
IP-magedon

The Four Ages of Networking…..

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Stone Age Bronze Age The Renaissance
Spanning Tree Routing Protocols SDN
VLANs WAN Design OpenFlow
IP-magedon Controllers
Overlays
MP-BGP
VXLAN
Micro-Segmentation
White Box

The Four Ages of Networking…..

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Stone Age Bronze Age The Renaissance Programmable Age
Spanning Tree Routing Protocols SDN Cloud
VLANs WAN Design OpenFlow Python
IP-magedon Controllers REST / APIs
Overlays NETCONF / YANG
MP-BGP “Fabrics”
VXLAN Network Function
Micro-Segmentation Virtualization (NFV)
White Box DevOps
Containers

The Four Ages of Networking…..

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App Economy Internet of Things Tech Unicorns

User Expectations and If it isn’t connected, don’t Low barrier of entry for
Agility bother… disruptors

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The Cloud You Plan
to Build 

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The Cloud You Plan
to Build 

The Cloud You End

Up With 
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The New Infrastructure Stack
Development Vagrant, Docker, Vim, Slack,
Environment Spark, Git

Users and
Developers

CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

Operating System Ubuntu, Microsoft

Architects and Infrastructure UCS/ACI, HP, vSphere/NSX

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Operators
The New Infrastructure Stack
Development Vagrant, Docker, Vim, Slack,
Environment Spark, Git

GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Delivery Pipeline Team City, Drone, Puppet,
Users and Ansible, Chef
Developers

Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,

and Automation OpenStack, AWS, CloudCenter

CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

Operating System Ubuntu, Microsoft

Architects and Infrastructure UCS/ACI, HP, vSphere/NSX

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Operators
The New Infrastructure Stack
Development Vagrant, Docker, Vim, Slack,
Environment Spark, Git

GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Delivery Pipeline Team City, Drone, Puppet,
Users and Ansible, Chef
Developers
Scheduling and
Placement Docker/Swarm, Kubernetes,
Mesosphere, Tectonic, Rancher,
Rocket
Container Layer

Applications and HAProxy, Cassandra,

Middleware RabbitMQ, Hadoop, Consul

Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,

and Automation OpenStack, AWS, CloudCenter

CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

Operating System Ubuntu, Microsoft

Architects and Infrastructure UCS/ACI, HP, vSphere/NSX

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Operators
The New Infrastructure Stack
Development Vagrant, Docker, Vim, Slack,
Environment Spark, Git

GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Delivery Pipeline Team City, Drone, Puppet,
Users and Ansible, Chef
Developers
Scheduling and
Placement Docker/Swarm, Kubernetes,
Mesosphere, Tectonic, Rancher,
Rocket
Container Layer

Applications and HAProxy, Cassandra,

DevOps RabbitMQ, Hadoop, Consul
Engineers Middleware
Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,
and Automation OpenStack, AWS, CloudCenter

CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,

Operating System Ubuntu, Microsoft

Architects and Infrastructure UCS/ACI, HP, vSphere/NSX

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Operators
The New Infrastructure Stack
Development Vagrant, Docker, Vim, Slack,
Environment Spark, Git

GitHub, BitBucket, Jenkins,

Delivery Pipeline Team City, Drone, Puppet,
Users and Ansible, Chef
Developers

PaaS
Scheduling and
Placement Docker/Swarm, Kubernetes,
Mesosphere, Tectonic, Rancher,
Rocket
Container Layer

Applications and HAProxy, Cassandra,

DevOps RabbitMQ, Hadoop, Consul
Engineers Middleware
Cloud Management UCS Director, vRealize,
and Automation OpenStack, AWS, CloudCenter

IaaS
CoreOS, Rancher, RedHat,
Operating System Ubuntu, Microsoft

Architects and Infrastructure UCS/ACI, HP, vSphere/NSX

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Operators
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The Programmable Network
Engineer

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Adding Network Programmability Skills!
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
• Python • Linux Skills • Linux Networking
• REST APIs • Ansible • Container Networking
• JSON/XML • Docker • NFV
• git/GitHub • NETCONF/YANG
As Needed
• Network Controllers
• IOT Networking
• Cloud Networking
• NFV
• ”DevOps”
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Next Steps!

Linux Unhatched Course – Available Now!

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Python Essentials and Emerging Tech

Workshops – Coming Soon!

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