It’s my pleasure to announce the overall availability of a number of new DevNet sandboxes. We’re repeatedly monitoring sandbox utilization and listening to our group in order that we will repeatedly enhance the person expertise we’re offering with our sandbox environments.
Let’s begin with Catalyst Heart, previously generally known as 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 may know, Catalyst Heart might be bought up to now solely as a {hardware} equipment. In latest occasions 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 surroundings. This growth had made it a lot simpler for our prospects in addition to our sandbox crew 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 at all times on Catalyst Heart sandboxes, we will 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 highly regarded over time so I’m joyful that we’re capable of get way more folks to make use of and benefit from 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 the moment operating model 2.3.7.4 of Catalyst Heart and there’s 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 have now 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 operating a workshop on precisely this matter at Ansible Fest in Denver earlier this yr. As a part of the workshop, we had the attendees comply with the information out there on https://developer.cisco.com/docs on the right way to use GitLab along with Ansible, Cisco pyATS, Cisco CML and Cisco NX-OS to construct a completely practical 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 the right way to construct and use these pipelines. Now we have 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 crew has executed a incredible job at rebuilding the Meraki sandboxes from scratch. Much like the Catalyst Heart sandboxes of the previous, we had been restricted by {hardware} on what number of Meraki sandboxes we might make out there to our group. That has fully modified and now the brand new Meraki sandboxes are totally digital. Now we have serial numbers out there for digital Meraki gadgets 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 gadgets and for the enterprise one, we have now additionally included an MV digital camera digital gadget.
Go forward and provides all these sandboxes a try to tell us what you assume.
P.S. We can have extra 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 for those who had been trying to take a look at Catalyst 9000 {hardware} switches and didn’t have entry to a lab surroundings, that can change very quickly :).
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