It’s my pleasure to announce the final availability of a number of new DevNet sandboxes. We frequently monitor Sandbox utilization and take heed to our group so we are able to frequently enhance the person expertise we offer with our Sandbox environments.
Let’s begin with Catalyst Heart, previously generally known as DNA Heart. Traditionally, we have been restricted within the availability of Catalyst Heart sandboxes because of the tight integration between {hardware} and software program that the platform had required for a few years. As you could already know, Catalyst Heart might be bought prior to now solely as a {hardware} machine. Not too long ago, that requirement was revised and we are able to now run Catalyst Heart as a digital machine on AWS and even domestically in a VMware digital surroundings. This growth made it a lot simpler for our prospects, in addition to our sandbox group, to extra simply deploy Catalyst Heart situations into digital lab environments. This permits us to scale Catalyst Heart sandboxes to a lot greater numbers. For always-on Catalyst Heart sandboxes, we are able to now accommodate 100 customers at a time, whereas for reservable situations we went from 4 to 25 out there situations. These sandboxes have been highly regarded over time, so I am glad that we are able to get much more individuals utilizing and benefiting from them. Reservable situations might be all yours for as much as 4 days with the small caveat that it takes about 60 minutes for all sandbox elements to be on-line. They’re presently working Catalyst Heart model 2.3.7.4 and there’s additionally a Cisco ISE server out there if you wish to implement SDA frameworks.
Subsequent, let’s speak about CI/CD pipelines and a brand new sandbox we now have so that you can construct and take a look at automation pipelines. I have been advocating using CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation and programmability for some time and had the pleasure of instructing a workshop on precisely this subject at Ansible Fest in Denver earlier this 12 months. As a part of the workshop, we had attendees comply with the information out there at https://developer.cisco.com/docs on easy methods to use GitLab together with Ansible, Cisco pyATS, Cisco CML, and Cisco NX-OS to construct a completely useful platform. CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure automation. I am very excited to now share with all of you that the sandbox we used for that occasion is publicly out there within the DevNet sandbox catalog together with the lab (https://developer.cisco.com/studying/labs/ansible-fest- 2024-cicd/introduction/) which guides you on easy methods to construct and use these pipelines. We’ve as much as 15 of those sandboxes out there at any time for as much as 5 days per reservation. Go forward and check out them out and witness the magic of utilizing community automation with CI/CD pipelines.
Final however not least, the group has performed a incredible job rebuilding the Meraki sandboxes from scratch. Identical to the Catalyst Heart sandboxes of previous, we have been {hardware} restricted in what number of Meraki sandboxes we might make out there to our group. That has fully modified and now the brand new Meraki sandboxes are fully digital. We’ve serial numbers out there for Meraki digital home equipment that we are able to scale to a lot bigger numbers. For reservable sandboxes, we stored the 2 sorts: small enterprise and enterprise. For each you get entry to MX, MS and MR digital gadgets and for the enterprise we now have additionally included an MV digital camera digital machine.
Go forward and check out all of those sandboxes and tell us what you assume.
PS: We may have extra bulletins about new DevNet sandboxes coming quickly. I do not wish to spoil these bulletins an excessive amount of, however let’s simply say that for those who have been trying to take a look at Catalyst 9000 {hardware} switches and did not have entry to a lab surroundings, that can change very quickly :).
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