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 group in order that we are able to constantly enhance the consumer expertise we’re offering with our sandbox environments.
Let’s begin with Catalyst Heart, previously often known as DNA Heart. Traditionally we have 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 may know, Catalyst Heart could possibly be bought up to now solely as a {hardware} equipment. In latest instances that requirement has been revised and now we are able to run Catalyst Heart as a digital machine in AWS and even on premise in a VMware digital surroundings. This growth had made it a lot simpler for our clients in addition to our sandbox group to extra simply deploy Catalyst Heart situations in digital lab environments. This permits us to scale the Catalyst Heart sandboxes to a lot greater numbers. For the all the time on Catalyst Heart sandboxes, we are able to now accommodate 100 customers on the similar time whereas for the reservable situations we went from 4 to 25 out there situations! These sandboxes have been very talked-about through the years so I’m comfortable that we’re capable of get rather more folks to make use of and reap the benefits of them. The reservable situations could 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 present working model 2.3.7.4 of Catalyst Heart and there may be additionally a Cisco ISE server out there if you wish to deploy SDA materials.
Subsequent, let’s speak about CI/CD pipelines and a model new sandbox we now have so that you can construct and take a look at 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 subject at Ansible Fest in Denver earlier this 12 months. As a part of the workshop, we had the attendees observe the information out there on https://developer.cisco.com/docs on how you can use GitLab along with Ansible, Cisco pyATS, Cisco CML and Cisco NX-OS to construct a totally useful 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 out there within the DevNet sandbox catalog along with the lab (https://developer.cisco.com/studying/labs/ansible-fest-2024-cicd/introduction/) that guides you on how you can construct and use these pipelines. We’ve got as much as 15 of those sandboxes out there always for as much as 5 days per reservation. Go forward and provides them a try to witness the magic of utilizing community automation with CI/CD pipelines.
Final however not least, the group has executed a unbelievable job at rebuilding the Meraki sandboxes from scratch. Much like the Catalyst Heart sandboxes of the previous, we have been restricted by {hardware} on what number of Meraki sandboxes we might make out there to our group. That has utterly modified and now the brand new Meraki sandboxes are fully digital. We’ve got serial numbers out there for digital Meraki units that we are able to 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 now have additionally included an MV digital camera digital machine.
Go forward and provides all these sandboxes a try to tell us what you suppose.
P.S. We may have further bulletins about new DevNet sandboxes very quickly. I don’t need to spoil an excessive amount of these bulletins however let’s simply say that in the event you have been trying to take a look at Catalyst 9000 {hardware} switches and didn’t have entry to a lab surroundings, that may change very quickly :).
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