Cisco IOS XE gives superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and cut back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs akin to NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure gadgets, minimizing handbook errors. The combination of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates system onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry gives real-time knowledge assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your complete system 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 sooner, safer, and environment friendly community operations.
Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be a 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 Change. For the primary time ever, there might be a four-hour technical seminar protecting 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 consists of an summary of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each system stage together with system onboarding, system configuration administration, system monitoring and system optimization. Many instruments akin to YANG Suite might be used to display discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities can even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization might 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 Periods
Atomic Config Change with Cisco Catalyst 9000 (BRKENS-2604)
Atomic Configuration and atomic config change is turning into an increasing number of requested, and this session dives deep into the newly launched options inside IOS XE and the Catalyst 9000 household. With the ability to handle configuration in an atomic style permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config change options might be demonstrated in an effort to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config change. Simply change ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide an entire config and that config might be set no matter current configuration.
Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! (BRKOPS-1401)
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE consists of an summary of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each system stage together with system onboarding, system configuration administration, system monitoring and system optimization. Many instruments akin to YANG Suite might be used to display discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities can even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization might 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 of reply this query with confidence however additionally, you will have a deep understanding of the options and actual world use circumstances which are enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are the perfect practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of huge quantities of telemetry knowledge ? 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 this planet of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It’s time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the proper means from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll discover ways to plan your IPv6 transition and how one can use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll study concerning 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 akin to automated testing and sources of fact can even be coated. 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 nicely. After the breakout, the attendees have a risk to strive the offered matters in apply via Seize the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Periods
Fashionable approaches for IOS XE community system 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 in an effort to handle the community extra effectively. Day0 consists of 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 might 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 perfect 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 display the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N reveals the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for retaining 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 without doubt one of the bigger world Web Change Factors and a important interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization answer consists of complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) function. This answer 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?” Subjects embody configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry knowledge via the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be a 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 system 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 gives an improved method to handle community gadgets. The standard use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale nicely. This lab reveals gRPC Dial-Out gives extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry knowledge to gather periodic knowledge & triggered occasions.
Discover and check 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 may vastly 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 check community APIs utilizing a range community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, individuals will get invaluable hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out widespread duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry initiatives. The lab will observe 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 Gadgets with RESTCONF (LABDEV-2001)
This lab session gives a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE gadgets utilizing RESTCONF. Individuals will discover ways to create their very own customized monitoring instrument utilizing Python to retrieve and handle system configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By guided workouts, attendees will achieve hands-on expertise in organising RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE gadgets, crafting API requests, and deciphering responses. By the top of the session, individuals might 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 all the time new and thrilling content material that will help 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! Take a look at Cisco IOS XE programmability periods from the earlier Cisco Reside Occasions:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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