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Cisco Cloud ACI Generic External Connectivity

January 20, 2022

Table of Contents: Credits Introduction Solution Requirements Basic Concept Implementation Steps overview Proof of Concept a. Initial Tenant & External Infrastructure bringup b. spin up csr for physical infrastructure c. initial config of csr on physical infrastructure d. changing ec2s for password authentication e. Workflow For Configuring from NDO e.1. Create ext VRF … More Cisco Cloud ACI Generic External Connectivity

K8s Lens IDE on AWS/ACI EKS infrastructure

January 1, 2022

Table of contents Introduction What we will show in this article Get Started with Lens Install Lens Onboard your K8s Cluster Pre-Requisite Setup Add in your K8s Cluster(s) Using Lens References Introduction Recently, I was looking into Lens IDE for K8s and found it to be very impressive. What I liked about it most is … More K8s Lens IDE on AWS/ACI EKS infrastructure

Good ACI References Worth Bookmarking

September 29, 2020

Last Updated: 9/7/2022 I’m bringing up this page to keep a running list of ACI bookmarks that are really worth reading. If you are working with ACI these are a must read. My colleagues and I will add to this list over the course of time. So, please visit frequently. Table of Contents: Security SR-MPLS … More Good ACI References Worth Bookmarking

Terraform with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator for building Hybrid Cloud and end to end services

December 20, 2021

Table of contents Introduction What We Will Demo in this Article A Brief Introduction to Terraform Characteristics of Terraform Important Pointers of Terraform Terraform Providers Terraform HCL code structure What Order are Resources built Terraform Backends Provisioners Executing The HCL Code Types of IAC Tools Terraform Commands Items to Remember for Terraform Security Considerations when … More Terraform with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator for building Hybrid Cloud and end to end services

Ansible Automation for Nexus Dashboard/Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator

November 30, 2021

I am writing this article to make you aware of Ansible usage with Cisco Nexus Dashboard/Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator. I will write one for Terraform with NDO soon. Previously, I had written an article Getting Started: Cisco MSO with Ansible which is still valid for the most part. However, a few things changed from then to … More Ansible Automation for Nexus Dashboard/Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Demo – Unlock new value from your hybrid cloud network

November 16, 2021

In this recording, you can see the capabilities Nexus Dashboard / Orchestrator / Insights. This has a real time live demo showing off some of the main features and will get you familiar with it’s capabilities. The demo gives a brief overview of Nexus Dashboard and apps that runs on it. It shows how to … More Cisco Nexus Dashboard Demo – Unlock new value from your hybrid cloud network

Cisco ACI APIC and cAPIC monitoring using Prometheus/Grafana

November 8, 2021

Changes: 1/14/2022: Replaced all occurances of APIC 5.3 to 5.2.3 From Release 5.2.3 of APIC and release 25.x of cAPIC Promethus Node Exporter Feature is available. This allows you to monitor statistics from Prometheus and view pre-configured dashboards from Grafana to get quick status of APICs/cAPICs. In this write up, I will show you how … More Cisco ACI APIC and cAPIC monitoring using Prometheus/Grafana

A Guide To: Nexus Dashboard Insights Kafka Exporter to Elasticsearch/Kibana for Data Analysis & Visualization

November 7, 2021

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights from release 5.0.1x can use the Kafka services that runs on ND and subscribe to a topic as a publisher to that topic that has been created on a Kafka service. You can then have a Kafka consumer subscribe to that topic and receive all the messages. The messages that can … More A Guide To: Nexus Dashboard Insights Kafka Exporter to Elasticsearch/Kibana for Data Analysis & Visualization

Nexus Dashboard 2.1 – New Features – Federated Clusters

September 20, 2021

Nexus Dashboard 2.1 has incorporated a lot of New Features/Improvements. In this write-up, I will primarily discuss the Federated Nexus Dashboard configuration, why use it and also discuss some of other underlying improvements/changes. I will also show how to send API calls to Nexus Dashboard Federated Clusters to get Federation Related Information. Installing ND is … More Nexus Dashboard 2.1 – New Features – Federated Clusters

Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 4 (using Openstack Integrated ACI)

September 17, 2021

Contributors: Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski If you followed Part 1 through 3, you should have a OpenStack / ACI integrated fabric ready to use. part 1: General discussion of Openstack and ACI integration part 2: showed how to do the integration using packstack part 3: showed how to do … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 4 (using Openstack Integrated ACI)