Configuring Cisco ACI with Ansible AWX running in Docker

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

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

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

Cisco MultiSite Orchestrator on Cisco Nexus Dashboard

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