It’s my pleasure to announce the final availability of a number of new DevNet sandboxes. We’re constantly monitoring sandbox utilization and listening to our neighborhood in order that we will constantly enhance the consumer expertise we’re offering with our sandbox environments.
Let’s begin with Catalyst Heart, previously often called DNA Heart. Traditionally we had been restricted within the availability of Catalyst Heart sandboxes due to the tight integration between {hardware} and software program that the platform had mandated for a few years. As you would possibly know, Catalyst Heart may very well be bought previously solely as a {hardware} equipment. In latest instances that requirement has been revised and now we will run Catalyst Heart as a digital machine in AWS and even on premise in a VMware digital setting. This improvement had made it a lot simpler for our prospects in addition to our sandbox staff to extra simply deploy Catalyst Heart cases in digital lab environments. This enables us to scale the Catalyst Heart sandboxes to a lot greater numbers. For the all the time on Catalyst Heart sandboxes, we will now accommodate 100 customers on the similar time whereas for the reservable cases we went from 4 to 25 obtainable cases! These sandboxes have been very fashionable over time so I’m blissful that we’re capable of get rather more individuals to make use of and reap the benefits of them. The reservable cases will be all yours for as much as 4 days with the small caveat that it takes about 60 minutes to have all of the elements of the sandbox come on-line. They’re at the moment working model 2.3.7.4 of Catalyst Heart and there may be additionally a Cisco ISE server obtainable if you wish to deploy SDA materials.
Subsequent, let’s speak about CI/CD pipelines and a model new sandbox we’ve got so that you can construct and check automation pipelines. I’ve been advocating for utilizing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation and programmability for some time and I had the pleasure of working a workshop on precisely this matter at Ansible Fest in Denver earlier this 12 months. As a part of the workshop, we had the attendees observe the information obtainable on https://developer.cisco.com/docs on use GitLab along with Ansible, Cisco pyATS, Cisco CML and Cisco NX-OS to construct a completely purposeful CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure automation. I’m tremendous excited to share now with all of you that the sandbox we used for that occasion is publicly obtainable within the DevNet sandbox catalog along with the lab (https://developer.cisco.com/studying/labs/ansible-fest-2024-cicd/introduction/) that guides you on construct and use these pipelines. We’ve got as much as 15 of those sandboxes obtainable always for as much as 5 days per reservation. Go forward and provides them a attempt to witness the magic of utilizing community automation with CI/CD pipelines.
Final however not least, the staff has carried out a implausible job at rebuilding the Meraki sandboxes from scratch. Just like the Catalyst Heart sandboxes of the previous, we had been restricted by {hardware} on what number of Meraki sandboxes we may make obtainable to our neighborhood. That has fully modified and now the brand new Meraki sandboxes are totally digital. We’ve got serial numbers obtainable for digital Meraki units that we will scale to a lot bigger numbers. For the reservable sandboxes, we saved the 2 flavors, small enterprise and enterprise. For each of those you get entry to an MX, MS and MR digital units and for the enterprise one, we’ve got additionally included an MV digicam digital machine.
Go forward and provides all these sandboxes a attempt to tell us what you assume.
P.S. We can have further bulletins about new DevNet sandboxes very quickly. I don’t wish to spoil an excessive amount of these bulletins however let’s simply say that in the event you had been seeking to check Catalyst 9000 {hardware} switches and didn’t have entry to a lab setting, that can change very quickly :).
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