Tag: ACI

Cisco Cloud Network Fabric Install Google Cloud with BGP-EVPN Support

April 29, 2023

Table of Contents: Introduction Quick Refresher of Cisco Cloud Network Controller 2a. Unified Object Mapping for CCNC CCNC Installation Guide Overview 3a. CCNC GCP Install Steps 3b. CCNC GCP Pre-requisities 3.c.CCNC GCP install from Marketplace CCNC GCP First Time Setup Onboarding CCNC and APICs to Nexus Dashboard and managing from Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator Tenant onbaording … More Cisco Cloud Network Fabric Install Google Cloud with BGP-EVPN Support

Fully Managed AWS Brownfield Integration to Cloud ACI

September 22, 2022

Table of Contents: Introduction What we will show in this writeup Demo Topology Implementation Steps 4.a.Prerequisites 4.b.Importing in the Brownfield VPC into ACI Fabric 4.c.Importing the VRF from CNC to NDO 4.d.Observe in AWS References Introduction Previously, I had written an article on how to integrate AWS Brownfield VPC into Cloud ACI Fabric. At the … More Fully Managed AWS Brownfield Integration to Cloud ACI

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

Subscribing Nexus Dashboard Insights Kafka Producer to a Kafka topic and streaming events to a Kafka Consumer

April 19, 2021

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 Nexus Dashboard Insights Kafka Producer to a Kafka topic and streaming events to a Kafka Consumer

Cisco MultiSite Orchestrator on Cisco Nexus Dashboard

February 9, 2021

Changes: 11/30/2021 with updated information on Ansible and Terraform 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 … More Cisco MultiSite Orchestrator on Cisco Nexus Dashboard