Author: aleccham

Configuring Cisco ACI with Ansible AWX running in Docker

February 22, 2022

Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Requirements AWX Install Options AWX Install for AWS/EC2 based install with Terraform AWX VM Preperation for vSphere based install Administering AWX GUI References Introduction We are looking into an APIC integration with a security product and it requires an AWX Ansible server to push configuration changes to our … More Configuring Cisco ACI with Ansible AWX running in Docker

Part 2 – Cisco ACI 5.2 and Kubernetes 1.21 CNI Feature Highlights

February 11, 2022

Table of contents Table of contents Introduction Network Diagram Visability into your Kubernetes Cluster EPG Visability of Containers and Nodes Easily Secure Kubernetes Applications and Cluster through ACI Contracts L4-L7 Load Balancing Integration Path of the packet and a Little PBR References Introduction In this article we examine our Cisco ACI integration with Kubernetes and … More Part 2 – Cisco ACI 5.2 and Kubernetes 1.21 CNI Feature Highlights

Part 1 – Cisco ACI 5.2 and Kubernetes 1.21 CNI Integration

December 20, 2021

Table of contents Table of contents Introduction Network Diagram Lab Requirements My Kubernetes Installation Method – Ansible + kubeadm Creating a VM template Ansible Server Configuration Ansible Host Software Setup Configure Ansible Playbook ACI Fabric Pre-Requisites VMM Tenant(s), VRF and L3OUT Deploy The K8 Cluster Basic K8 Host Network Configuration Verifying you have a Successful … More Part 1 – Cisco ACI 5.2 and Kubernetes 1.21 CNI Integration

Part 3 – Monitoring Apps deployed on K8s cluster on ACI Fabric Using AppDynamics/NDI

December 9, 2021

Introduction In this article we will focus on monitoring an application running within a Kubernetes cluster. This Kubernetes cluster has been integrated with Cisco ACI CNI, however that is not a requirement for the integration or monitoring to work. If you have read the previous articles you will remember that we were previously installing each … More Part 3 – Monitoring Apps deployed on K8s cluster on ACI Fabric Using AppDynamics/NDI

Part 1 – Installing AppDynamics and Integrating with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

September 14, 2021

With the release of NDI 5.0, Cisco added the ability to integrate the NDI platform with other 3rd party monitoring applications. The first integration supported was AppDynamics. With AppDynamics you can feed in your application monitoring to the NDI dashboard to provide further information to aid in monitoring and troubleshooting specific issues with the application running … More Part 1 – Installing AppDynamics and Integrating with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and Splunk Integration

November 10, 2021

Introductions In this article I will demonstrate how to quickly setup a Splunk lab environment using Docker, install the Cisco Nexus Dashboard plugins, and configure Splunk to ingest NDI API data into its GUI interface. Requirements and VM Setup 1 VM running your Linux distro of choice with the following HW: CPU – 16 vCPUs … More Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights and Splunk Integration

Deploying Cisco Application Service Engine (SE) for ACI – Fabric Internal Mode – 1.1.2i

May 1, 2020

Day – 0 – Upgrade to the latest code   In order to get started deploying Cisco Application Service engine. I recommend that you first go to Cisco.com and download the latest version of the iso for the physical appliance. This will ensure that you have the latest version of bug fixes.    Once the … More Deploying Cisco Application Service Engine (SE) for ACI – Fabric Internal Mode – 1.1.2i

How to clear cluster configuration of Cisco Application Service Engine App

March 13, 2020

This will be a quick post on how to reset the initial configuration of Cisco Application Service Engine App cluster config. While attempting the integration for the first time I realized that I had a mistake in my initial configuration of the app, but there is no way to change it from the GUI in … More How to clear cluster configuration of Cisco Application Service Engine App