If you already have resources deployed in Azure, you can now connect your brownfield vNETS to the Azure cAPIC vNETs using vNET Peering. This means your connectivity from ACI Fabric vNETS to the brownfield vNETS can go over Azure’s backbone directly. Security Policies can be attached for this connectivity based on requirements. You can follow … More Cloud ACI 5.2: Azure Brownfield Integration with ACI Fabric
If you have 2 or more Cloud Fabrics in the same Cloud Provider you can now (from cAPIC 5.2) use the Cloud Providers backbone for interconnecting these Data Centers (DCI). Prior to this you needed to build IPSec tunnels over the Internet between the sites to achieve this. This gives you the benefit of high … More Cloud ACI 5.2: Interconnecting ACI Fabrics Over Cloud Provider’s Backbone at High Speed for both AWS and Azure
With the Covid pandemic, many enterprises have come to the realization that having a huge infrastructure for your Data Center on-Premise may not be the most cost effective. A Hybrid Cloud Data Center (onPrem + cloud), or MultiCloud ( multiple Interconnected DC Fabrics in one or more cloud provider) Data Center may make more sense. … More Cloud ACI 5.2: A compelling case for Cisco ACI Hybrid/Multicloud Data Centers
This is a running list of ACI/IPV6 support notes that I will add to as I learn more items. Most of the items here have been taken from Cisco ACI Infrastructure Fundamentals Release 5.1(x), Networking and Managemcnt Connectivity. In addition I’ve also added items here that I’ve obtained by querying the field. Supported: IPv4 only, … More ACI with IPv6
Starting from ACI Release 5.0(1) Cisco has started supporting ACI SR-MPLS handoff for L3 Outs. If you are not familiar with Segment Routing concepts do not despair. Once you see the benefits of using Segment Routing you will realize why this is such a good way of doing L3 Outs. If you are familiar with … More ACI SR-MPLS Handoff for L3 Outs
Applications frequently need to talk to other applications. As an example Application A gathers some data and Application B needs to do some custom processing with the output of data from Application A. When Applications that are split in functionality need to exchange data between each other, there are generally 2 kinds of ways to … More Subscribing Network Insights Kafka Producer to a Kafka topic and streaming events to a Kafka Consumer
This is a rather old topic, relevant only for day 0 setup of ACI. However, now that a lot of new customers are implementing ACI, this topic is again coming up and I’ve had a number of folks reach out to me to discuss this. For that reason, I decided to do a short write-up … More ACI TEP Pool Discussion
Jenkins is an open-source Continuous Integration server written in Java. With Jenkins you can send configurations to devices using Ansible/Terraform/Bash/Shell/SSH and a variety of other methods / scripts to any device. Jenkins is very commonly used by developers for creating/testing/deploying code and is an integral part of Infrastructure As A Code. Jenkins can also orchestrate … More Jenkins /Ansible for ACI Orchestration and for Automated Configuration Sanity Check / Pre-verification with NAE/ND and Git integration
In Release 5.0 of ACI a new feature, ESGs was released. This feature effectively allows us to decouple the security policy construct FROM EPGs which have a relationship to BDs TO ESGs which have a relationship to VRFs. I had planned to read up on this feature and rewrite the previous article that I had … More Using ESGs (Endpoint Security Group) in ACI fabric to migrate from Network Centric to Application Centric
In a previous article, I had introduced and guided on how to install Cisco Nexus Dashboard. In this post I will discuss and do a short guidance on installing Cisco MSO on Cisco ND. Installation is really simple as you will see in a bit. It’s really not much more involved than going to ND … More Cisco MultiSite Orchestrator on Cisco Nexus Dashboard