Cisco IOS XE affords superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and scale back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs similar to NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure units, minimizing guide errors. The mixing of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates system onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry gives real-time knowledge assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your entire system lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options enable our prospects to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the chopping fringe of community automation, enabling quicker, safer, and environment friendly community operations.
Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be part of us at Cisco Dwell AMEA in San Diego June 8 – 12, 2025!
These classes cowl subjects starting from getting began with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and subjects starting from trendy approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Change. For the primary time ever, there will likely be a four-hour technical seminar masking an outline of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the main points of the upcoming Cisco Dwell classes beneath:
Technical Seminar
Automating All Issues YANG, On a regular basis – Programmability and Automation 101 with Cisco IOS XE [TECOPS-2314]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE contains an outline of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each system stage together with system onboarding, system configuration administration, system monitoring and system optimization. Many instruments similar to YANG Suite will likely be used to show discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities will even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization will likely be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our units to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
Breakout Periods
Atomic Config Change with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]
Atomic Configuration and atomic config substitute is turning into an increasing number of requested, and this session dives deep into the newly launched options inside IOS XE and the Catalyst 9000 household. Having the ability to handle configuration in an atomic trend permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config substitute options will likely be demonstrated so as to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config substitute. Simply substitute ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide a whole config and that config will likely be set no matter present configuration.
Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! [BRKOPS-1401]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE contains an outline of the YANG primarily based APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each system stage together with system onboarding, system configuration administration, system monitoring and system optimization. Many instruments similar to YANG Suite will likely be used to show discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst units. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities will even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization will likely be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our units to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
gRPC, gNMI, gNOI… Oh My! An Enterprise Community Automation Journey [BRKDEV-2017]
What number of Google API micro companies are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? On the finish of this session not solely will you be capable of reply this query with confidence however additionally, you will have a deep understanding of the options and actual world use circumstances which are enabled as a part of the Google Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are the very best practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of enormous quantities of telemetry knowledge ? This session covers the whole Programmability & Automation lifecycle of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 when managed utilizing gRPC, gNMI and gNOI… oh my!
The Community of the Future is Right here – Let’s Automate your IPv6 deployment with Python! [BRKOPS-2223]
IPv6 marks a brand new horizon on the earth of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It’s time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the appropriate manner from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll discover ways to plan your IPv6 transition and the best way to use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll study concerning the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may assist you on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow choices similar to automated testing and sources of fact will even be lined. This session is designed for community engineers who’ve a necessity to start out implementing IPv6. The session’s audience has little or no prior expertise with Python automation and is pretty new to IPv6 as nicely. After the breakout, the attendees have a chance to attempt the introduced subjects in follow by Seize the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Periods
Trendy approaches for IOS XE community system administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]
For those who handle any variety of IOS XE units immediately then this session is for you as a result of it can in a short time make you an professional within the working system’s Day0-N options so as to handle the community extra effectively. Day0 contains the lengthy standing ZTP Zero-Contact provisioning however when encryption is required end-to-end then the Safe ZTP options can be utilized. A comparability and advantages of every will likely be demonstrated
Day 1 API with a deal with the tooling to allow success no matter NETCONF or RESTCONF & Ansible or Terraform. What are the very best practices when transferring away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config substitute operations?
Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from sluggish SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to show the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N exhibits the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for protecting the operational prices low by utilizing the built-in automation capabilities.
Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059]
The Toronto Web Alternate is without doubt one of the bigger international Web Alternate Factors and a essential interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization answer contains complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) characteristic. This answer from Blue Flag Consulting interprets actual enterprise questions into actionable visualizations to assist solutions questions like “What’s the hourly error price for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the complete bandwidth this month for ISP visitors?” Matters embrace configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry knowledge by the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the most recent campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!
Stroll-in Labs for Palms-On
These classes can be found throughout the world of options all through the period of the Cisco Dwell week
Effectively monitoring system statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004]
Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) addresses lots of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and gives an improved approach to handle community units. The normal use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale nicely. This lab exhibits gRPC Dial-Out gives extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry knowledge to gather periodic knowledge & triggered occasions.
Discover and take a look at YANG fashions for model-driven telemetry on IOS XE with Cisco’s YANG Suite [LABOPS-2000]
Contemplating transferring away from SNMP-based community monitoring to model-based telemetry? Your journey may start with the duty of researching advanced and interdependent YANG fashions to seek out the information paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and may drastically scale back the time crucial for this analysis. YANG Suite abstracts the complexities of coping with YANG fashions of their native textual content format and means that you can simply construct and take a look at community APIs utilizing a spread community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, members will get beneficial hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out frequent duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry tasks. The lab will observe a standard analysis and testing workflow the place the participant will: • Discover YANG fashions utilizing YANG Suite’s graphical interface • Construct RPCs in YANG Suite • Ship RPCs to reside Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes
Palms-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Gadgets with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]
This lab session affords a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE units utilizing RESTCONF. Members will discover ways to create their very own customized monitoring instrument utilizing Python to retrieve and handle system configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. Via guided workouts, attendees will acquire hands-on expertise in establishing RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE units, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the top of the session, members will likely be outfitted with the information and expertise to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires primary information in programming and API understanding.
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Irrespective of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there’s all the time new and thrilling content material that will help you to dive even deeper whereas studying about new applied sciences and capabilities for the enterprise community.
Not in a position to attend Cisco Dwell this time? No worries! Try Cisco IOS XE programmability classes from the earlier Cisco Dwell Occasions:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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