Cisco ACI: Zero to Hero

It doesn't matter if you are completely new to Cisco ACI or you already have some experience with the technology, this book will guide you through the whole implementation lifecycle. The goal is to provide you with a comprehensive toolset to become confident in any ACI related task. In the beginning, it's very important to build strong fundamental knowledge about Cisco ACI components. You'll go through underlay networking based on Nexus 9000 switches and describe the APIC controller cluster acting as the management plane of ACI. By building Access Policies, you'll see how to optimally connect servers, storages, routers, switches, or L4-L7 service devices to ACI. Then you'll properly design and implement Application Policies. You will understand all the fabric forwarding behavior when using different ACI settings and get a toolset on how to verify and troubleshoot eventual problems. This book also covers more advanced features like integration with virtualization hypervisors, service chaining of L4-L7 devices using Service Graphs, REST API automation based on Python or Ansible and ACI Cloud Deployment. Every data centre architect today struggles to achieve the highest possible visibility in a data center. You'll learn how to start collecting and analyzing telemetry data from ACI inside the Nexus Dashboard tool to get unprecedented value and ease 2-day operation tasks. Cisco ACI: Zero to Hero can additionally be used as a valuable source of theoretical and practical knowledge for all candidates preparing for CCIE DC v3.0 Written or Lab exam.. What You'll Learn Understand Cisco ACI components Underlay networking based on Nexus 9000 switches, APIC controllers, Application Policy Model Integrate ACI with virtualization hypervisors Dynamically and seamlessly include L4-L7 service devices in communication between ACI endpoints Build ACI Anywhere - ACI public cloud deployment, Remote Leaf configuration, Virtual ACI PODs. Utilize ACI REST-API, related Cobra SDK, and Ansible to develop your own automation and scripts on top of the ACI platform Who This Book Is For Network engineers, architects, network developers, administrators or NOC technicians.