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 neighborhood in order that we will repeatedly enhance the person 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 could possibly be bought previously solely as a {hardware} equipment. In current 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 surroundings. This growth had made it a lot simpler for our clients in addition to our sandbox workforce to extra simply deploy Catalyst Heart cases in digital lab environments. This enables us to scale the Catalyst Heart sandboxes to a lot larger numbers. For the at all times on Catalyst Heart sandboxes, we will now accommodate 100 customers on the identical time whereas for the reservable cases we went from 4 to 25 out there cases! These sandboxes have been highly regarded over time so I’m completely happy that we’re capable of get way more individuals to make use of and make the most of them. The reservable cases might be all yours for as much as 4 days with the small caveat that it takes about 60 minutes to have all of the parts 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’ve got 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 matter at Ansible Fest in Denver earlier this yr. As a part of the workshop, we had the attendees observe the information out there on https://developer.cisco.com/docs on learn how to use GitLab along with Ansible, Cisco pyATS, Cisco CML and Cisco NX-OS to construct a completely 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 learn how to construct and use these pipelines. We’ve as much as 15 of those sandboxes out there 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 workforce has finished a improbable 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 might make out there to our neighborhood. That has fully modified and now the brand new Meraki sandboxes are solely digital. We’ve serial numbers out there 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 digital camera digital machine.
Go forward and provides all these sandboxes a attempt 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 if you happen to had been seeking 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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