Cisco IOS XE affords superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and cut back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs comparable 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 machine onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry supplies real-time information 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 prospects to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the slicing fringe of community automation, enabling quicker, safer, and environment friendly community operations. 

Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be 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 trendy approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Substitute. For the primary time ever, there will likely be a four-hour technical seminar overlaying an summary 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 contains an summary of the YANG primarily based 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 comparable to YANG Suite will likely be used to reveal 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 will likely 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 exchange is changing into an increasing number of 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 vogue permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config exchange options will likely be demonstrated in an effort to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config exchange. Simply exchange ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide a whole config and that config will likely 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 contains an summary of the YANG primarily based 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 comparable to YANG Suite will likely be used to reveal 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 will likely 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 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 circumstances which might be 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 information ? 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 suitable manner from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll discover ways to plan your IPv6 transition and how you can use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll be taught concerning the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may assist you on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow selections comparable to 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 properly. After the breakout, the attendees have a chance to attempt the introduced matters in apply via Seize the Flag missions. 

DEVNET & Cisco U Classes 

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

When you handle any variety of IOS XE gadgets instantly 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 in an effort 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 will likely 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 most effective practices when shifting away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config exchange operations? 

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

Day N exhibits the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for conserving the operational prices low by utilizing the built-in automation capabilities. 

Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059] 

The Toronto Web Change is likely one of the bigger international Web Change Factors and a crucial interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization answer contains 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 fee for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the complete bandwidth this month for ISP visitors?” Matters embody configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry information via the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be 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 Fingers-On 

These periods can be found throughout the world of options all through the period of the Cisco Reside 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 supplies an improved approach to handle community gadgets. The normal use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale properly. This lab exhibits gRPC Dial-Out supplies extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry information to gather periodic information & 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 advanced and interdependent YANG fashions to search out the info paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and may enormously cut back the time essential 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 take a look at community APIs utilizing a spread community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, individuals will get helpful hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can be taught to carry out widespread duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry initiatives. The lab will monitor a standard 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 stay Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes 

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

This lab session affords a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE gadgets utilizing RESTCONF. Members will discover ways to create their very own customized monitoring software utilizing Python to retrieve and handle machine configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By way of guided workouts, attendees will achieve hands-on expertise in organising RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE gadgets, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the tip of the session, individuals will likely be outfitted with the information and abilities to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires primary information in programming and API understanding. 

Keep Related 

Browse the complete session catalog and register for Cisco Reside right here. Trying ahead to seeing you at Cisco Reside! 

Irrespective of the place you’re 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 in a position to 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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