Cisco IOS XE provides superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and cut back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs resembling NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure gadgets, minimizing handbook errors. The combination of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates gadget onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry gives real-time knowledge assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your complete gadget lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options enable our clients to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the reducing fringe of community automation, enabling sooner, 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 periods cowl matters starting from getting began with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and matters starting from trendy approaches for IOS XE community administration to Streaming Telemetry to Atomic Configuration Exchange. For the primary time ever, there shall be a four-hour technical seminar overlaying an outline of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the small print of the upcoming Cisco Dwell periods under:
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 gadget stage together with gadget onboarding, gadget configuration administration, gadget monitoring and gadget optimization. Many instruments resembling YANG Suite shall be used to show discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities may even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization shall be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our gadgets to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
Breakout Periods
Atomic Config Exchange with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]
Atomic Configuration and atomic config exchange is changing 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 exchange options shall be demonstrated in an effort to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config exchange. Simply exchange ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide an entire config and that config shall be set no matter current 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 gadget stage together with gadget onboarding, gadget configuration administration, gadget monitoring and gadget optimization. Many instruments resembling YANG Suite shall be used to show discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities may even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization shall be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our gadgets 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 providers 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 might be 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 planet of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It’s time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the fitting approach from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll discover ways to plan your IPv6 transition and methods to use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll be taught in regards to the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may provide help to on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow choices resembling automated testing and sources of reality may even be lined. This session is designed for community engineers who’ve a necessity to start out implementing IPv6. The session’s target market has little or no prior expertise with Python automation and is pretty new to IPv6 as properly. After the breakout, the attendees have a risk to strive the introduced matters in follow by means of Seize the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Periods
Fashionable approaches for IOS XE community gadget administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]
For those who handle any variety of IOS XE gadgets immediately then this session is for you as a result of it would in a short time make you an professional within the working system’s Day0-N options in an effort 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 shall 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 exchange operations?
Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from gradual SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to show the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N reveals the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for holding the operational prices low through the use of the built-in automation capabilities.
Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059]
The Toronto Web Trade is among the bigger world Web Trade 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 site visitors?” Matters embody configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry knowledge by means of the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the newest campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!
Stroll-in Labs for Arms-On
These periods can be found inside the world of options all through the period of the Cisco Dwell week
Effectively monitoring gadget 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 strategy to handle community gadgets. The normal use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale properly. This lab reveals gRPC Dial-Out gives extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry knowledge to gather periodic knowledge & triggered occasions.
Discover and check 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 enormously cut back the time mandatory for this analysis. YANG Suite abstracts the complexities of coping with YANG fashions of their native textual content format and permits you to simply construct and check community APIs utilizing a spread community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, members will get helpful hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can be taught to carry out widespread duties required to assist model-driven automation and telemetry tasks. The lab will monitor 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 dwell Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes
Arms-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Units with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]
This lab session provides a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE gadgets utilizing RESTCONF. Individuals will discover ways to create their very own customized monitoring device utilizing Python to retrieve and handle gadget configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By guided workout routines, attendees will achieve hands-on expertise in organising RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE gadgets, crafting API requests, and deciphering responses. By the top of the session, members shall be geared up with the data and expertise to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires primary data in programming and API understanding.
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Irrespective of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there may be all the time new and thrilling content material that can assist 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 periods from the earlier Cisco Dwell Occasions:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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