If you might get 98%+ implementation and alter success 5x sooner, what number of modifications would you make to your community?
Cisco Services as Code will help you expedite community automation – and get you prepared for the AI period.
Here’s what you want to know – in brief.
*This weblog is predicated on a Cisco Live session delivered by Jesse Reed, VP of Customer Experience Product Management, and Michael Kaemper, CTO of Customer Experience EMEA. You can watch the total session right here.
#1
What is the state of networks as we speak?
- Roughly 80% of community issues are because of improper configuration and points with change administration[1], which are sometimes a results of human error.
- IT leaders are shifting away from guide automation to API-driven environments to arrange for AI.
- Infrastructure as Code is established because the de facto methodology with the worldwide market projected to develop at a CAGR of >24% from 2025 to 2027[2].
#2
What do you want to change to get AI-ready?
The AI period requires sure modifications:
- Digitize change; Go from ClickOps to DevOps: Move from human workflow to digital workflow. As a repeatable methodology, you’ll be able to go from one structure to the following utilizing the identical toolkit.
- Leverage digital intelligence and expertise inside DevOps: Ensure greatest practices are utilized, validated designs are adopted, and all modifications are examined and documented with model management. Applying open requirements like Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, and Rest-APIs allow you to handle your atmosphere in a common and absolutely digital trend.
Running your infrastructure digitally is the important thing to harvesting AI capabilities – which has nonetheless to indicate its full potential.
#3
What is Cisco Services as Code?
This is a giant transformation in the way in which you use your atmosphere. Cisco can assist you with Cisco Services as Code, enabling you with these three digital capabilities:
- Infrastructure as Code: All of Cisco’s greatest practices, data, and capabilities, so you’ll be able to keep away from errors when defining and executing configurations.
- Business Process and Analytics: We guarantee an built-in enterprise course of is included. We supply observability and analytics so you’ll be able to replicate on how your modifications have an effect on your person expertise or your utility efficiency.
- DevOps Toolchain: Cisco equips you with a toolchain or use yours the place obtainable. It’s all open supply to work on your heterogeneous environments, not simply Cisco applied sciences.
#4
How are you able to put together the workforce for change? (AI brokers)
Engineers can now interact with the Cisco Services as code by means of an AI Assistant to get assist all through your entire course of:
- “Help me understand the configuration”: The engineer comes into a sophisticated topology and wishes to know the configuration state.
- “Help me change the configuration”: The engineer will get assist altering the configuration and creating documentation.
- “Help me troubleshoot”: The engineer executes a pipeline with validation earlier than the change goes into manufacturing. If an error happens, the assistant creates another configuration and helps determine and perceive the basis explanation for that problem.
*Now obtainable for ACI. Soon obtainable for SD-WAN and NDFC.
#5
How are you able to obtain cross-architecture automation?
Network as Code API permits you to automate totally different architectures in the identical method in addition to combine your online business course of along with your ITSM, providers catalog, and so forth. Once you’ve got one structure applied within the toolchain, you need to use the identical toolkit for different architectures.
Many architectures can be found as we speak, together with ACI, NDFC, SD-WAN, ISE, Firewall, Meraki, and Catalyst Center.
#6
What do prospects say?
“We have been talking about network automation for 10 to 15 years but hadn’t seen the boost we expected. For us, it was the adoption of the public cloud that opened our eyes, and we really saw the opportunity. Infrastructure as Code can have a significant impact on the way we operate and maintain the network.”
-Jose Manuel Postigo Aguilar, Lead Network Architect, BBVA
[1] Gartner, Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking 2024, June 2024
[2] Global Market Insights, Infrastructure as Code Market Size, December 2024
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