Cisco IOS XE gives superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and cut back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs reminiscent of NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure gadgets, minimizing handbook errors. The integration of Zero-Touch Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates system onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry supplies real-time knowledge assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your complete system lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options permit our clients to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the reducing fringe of community automation, enabling sooner, safer, and environment friendly community operations.
Ready to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Join us at Cisco Live 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 Replace. For the primary time ever, there will probably be a four-hour technical seminar masking an outline of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the small print of the upcoming Cisco Live periods beneath:
Technical Seminar
Automating All Things YANG, All the time – Programmability and Automation 101 with Cisco IOS XE [TECOPS-2314]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE consists of an outline of the YANG based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each system stage together with system onboarding, system configuration administration, system monitoring and system optimization. Many instruments reminiscent of YANG Suite will probably be used to display discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Model-Driven Telemetry capabilities may also be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization will probably be demonstrated. Guest Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our gadgets to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
Breakout Sessions
Atomic Config Replace with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]
Atomic Configuration and atomic config substitute is turning into an increasing number of requested, and this session dives deep into the newly launched options inside IOS XE and the Catalyst 9000 household. Being capable of handle configuration in an atomic trend permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Using CLI or API the atomic config substitute options will probably be demonstrated so as to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config substitute. Easily substitute ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide an entire config and that config will probably be set no matter present configuration.
Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! [BRKOPS-1401]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE consists of an outline of the YANG based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each system stage together with system onboarding, system configuration administration, system monitoring and system optimization. Many instruments reminiscent of YANG Suite will probably be used to display discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Model-Driven Telemetry capabilities may also be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization will probably be demonstrated. Guest 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 Network Automation Journey [BRKDEV-2017]
How many Google API micro providers are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? At the tip of this session not solely will you be capable to reply this query with confidence however additionally, you will have a deep understanding of the options and actual world use circumstances which can be enabled as a part of the Google Network Management API. But what about Model-Driven Telemetry? What are one of the best practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of huge quantities of telemetry knowledge ? This session covers the entire Programmability & Automation lifecycle of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 when managed utilizing gRPC, gNMI and gNOI… oh my!
The Network of the Future is Here – Let’s Automate your IPv6 deployment with Python! [BRKOPS-2223]
IPv6 marks a brand new horizon on this planet of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It is time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the correct means from the start: utilizing automation! In this 90 minute breakout you’ll learn to plan your IPv6 transition and use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You will study concerning the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may assist you on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow selections reminiscent of automated testing and sources of fact may also be coated. 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 effectively. After the breakout, the attendees have a chance to attempt the introduced matters in observe via Capture the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Sessions
Modern approaches for IOS XE community system administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]
If you handle any variety of IOS XE gadgets straight then this session is for you as a result of it can in a short time make you an knowledgeable within the working system’s Day0-N options so as to handle the community extra effectively. Day0 consists of the lengthy standing ZTP Zero-Touch provisioning however when encryption is required end-to-end then the Secure ZTP options can be utilized. A comparability and advantages of every will probably be demonstrated
Day 1 API with a deal with the tooling to allow success no matter NETCONF or RESTCONF & Ansible or Terraform. What are one of the best practices when transferring away from the CLI and leveraging automation? What about Atomic config substitute operations?
Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from gradual SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to display the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N reveals the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for preserving the operational prices low through the use of the built-in automation capabilities.
Observability at TorIX: Custom Telemetry Solutions on Next-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059]
The Toronto Internet Exchange is likely one of the bigger world Internet Exchange Points and a important interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization answer consists of complete insights into the Enterprise Network utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT) characteristic. This answer from Blue Flag Consulting interprets actual enterprise questions into actionable visualizations to assist solutions questions like “What is the hourly error rate for production switches in San Diego” and “What is the total bandwidth this month for ISP traffic?” Topics embrace configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry knowledge via the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Join us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the newest campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!
Walk-in Labs for Hands-On
These periods can be found inside the world of options all through the period of the Cisco Live week
Efficiently monitoring system statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004]
Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT) addresses lots of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and supplies an improved strategy to handle community gadgets. The conventional use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale effectively. This lab reveals gRPC Dial-Out supplies extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry knowledge to gather periodic knowledge & triggered occasions.
Explore and take a look at YANG fashions for model-driven telemetry on IOS XE with Cisco’s YANG Suite [LABOPS-2000]
Considering transferring away from SNMP-based community monitoring to model-based telemetry? Your journey would possibly start with the duty of researching advanced and interdependent YANG fashions to search out the information paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and might significantly cut back the time vital for this analysis. YANG Suite abstracts the complexities of coping with YANG fashions of their native textual content format and means that you can simply construct and take a look at community APIs utilizing a range community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. In this session, contributors will get invaluable hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out widespread duties required to help model-driven automation and telemetry initiatives. The lab will observe a standard analysis and testing workflow the place the participant will: • Explore YANG fashions utilizing YANG Suite’s graphical interface • Build RPCs in YANG Suite • Send RPCs to reside Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes
Hands-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Devices with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]
This lab session gives a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE gadgets utilizing RESTCONF. Participants will learn to create their very own customized monitoring device utilizing Python to retrieve and handle system configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. Through guided workout routines, attendees will acquire hands-on expertise in establishing RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE gadgets, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the tip of the session, contributors will probably be geared up with the information and abilities to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires fundamental information in programming and API understanding.
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No matter the place you might be 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 capable of attend Cisco Live this time? No worries! Check out Cisco IOS XE programmability periods from the earlier Cisco Live Events:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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