Cisco IOS XE gives superior programmability and automation capabilities that simplify community administration and scale back complexity. By using open, standards-based APIs similar to NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI, community directors can effectively provision and configure gadgets, minimizing handbook errors. The combination of Zero-Contact Provisioning with DevOps toolkits accelerates machine onboarding, whereas model-driven telemetry supplies real-time information assortment for enhanced monitoring and troubleshooting. Cisco’s automation options are extensible throughout your complete machine lifecycle, supporting seamless software program upgrades and patching. These options enable our clients to drive enterprise outcomes and be on the slicing fringe of community automation, enabling quicker, safer, and environment friendly community operations.
Able to dive deeper into Cisco IOS XE programmability, automation and telemetry? Be part of us at Cisco Stay 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 Exchange. For the primary time ever, there will probably be a four-hour technical seminar masking an summary of all issues programmability with Cisco IOS XE. See the small print of the upcoming Cisco Stay periods beneath:
Technical Seminar
Automating All Issues YANG, On a regular basis – Programmability and Automation 101 with Cisco IOS XE [TECOPS-2314]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE contains an summary of the YANG based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments similar to YANG Suite will probably be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities will even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization will probably be demonstrated. Visitor Shell, the Python and NETCONF API, and different improvements that allow our gadgets to be deployed, managed, and configured with ease at scale.
Breakout Periods
Atomic Config Exchange with Cisco Catalyst 9000 [BRKENS-2604]
Atomic Configuration and atomic config exchange 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. With the ability to handle configuration in an atomic trend permits groups to extra successfully handle the change and community configuration drift. Utilizing CLI or API the atomic config exchange options will probably be demonstrated with the intention to instantly profit from leveraging both partial config or full config exchange. Simply exchange ACL, insurance policies, or interface configurations, or provide a whole config and that config will probably be set no matter current configuration.
Cisco IOS XE: Telemetry, Automation, and YANG—Oh My! [BRKOPS-1401]
This programmability and automation on Cisco Catalyst IOS XE contains an summary of the YANG based mostly APIs and the related tooling. The session will cowl automation at each machine stage together with machine onboarding, machine configuration administration, machine monitoring and machine optimization. Many instruments similar to YANG Suite will probably be used to exhibit discovering a YANG mannequin and constructing API calls to push to Catalyst gadgets. The Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry capabilities will even be mentioned and the instance Docker container for assortment and visualization will probably be demonstrated. Visitor 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 Community Automation Journey [BRKDEV-2017]
What number of Google API micro providers are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? On the finish of this session not solely will you have the ability 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 Community Administration API. However what about Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry? What are one of the best practices for mutual TLS authentication and assortment of enormous quantities of telemetry information ? This session covers the entire Programmability & Automation lifecycle of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 when managed utilizing gRPC, gNMI and gNOI… oh my!
The Community of the Future is Right here – Let’s Automate your IPv6 deployment with Python! [BRKOPS-2223]
IPv6 marks a brand new horizon on the planet of networking, promising limitless IP addresses and enhanced community efficiency. It’s time to embark on this journey – however let’s do it the suitable approach from the start: utilizing automation! On this 90 minute breakout you’ll discover ways to plan your IPv6 transition and easy methods to use Python to automate setting the plan into motion. You’ll study in regards to the should is aware of of IPv6 in addition to helpful Python libraries that may enable you on this journey, and see sensible actual life Python examples of deploying IPv6 configurations in your community. Workflow selections similar to automated testing and sources of reality will even 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 properly. After the breakout, the attendees have a risk to strive the offered matters in apply via Seize the Flag missions.
DEVNET & Cisco U Periods
Fashionable approaches for IOS XE community machine administration on Cat9k [DEVNET-1110]
If you happen to handle any variety of IOS XE gadgets straight then this session is for you as a result of it’ll in a short time make you an skilled within the working system’s Day0-N options with the intention to handle the community extra effectively. Day0 contains the lengthy standing ZTP Zero-Contact provisioning however when encryption is required end-to-end then the Safe ZTP options can be utilized. A comparability and advantages of every will probably be demonstrated
Day 1 API with a give attention to 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 exchange operations?
Day 2 Telemetry helps transition from gradual SNMP to enhanced speeds with YANG to exhibit the highest sustainability usecases.
Day N exhibits the ping and traceroute livetools and different options for holding the operational prices low through the use of the built-in automation capabilities.
Observability at TorIX: Customized Telemetry Options on Subsequent-gen Campus Switching [CISCOU-1059]
The Toronto Web Alternate is without doubt one of the bigger international Web Alternate Factors and a important interconnection level for a lot of organizations. The in-production telemetry visualization resolution contains complete insights into the Enterprise Community utilizing subsequent gen campus switches and the Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) function. This resolution from Blue Flag Consulting interprets actual enterprise questions into actionable visualizations to assist solutions questions like “What’s the hourly error fee for manufacturing switches in San Diego” and “What’s the complete bandwidth this month for ISP visitors?” Subjects embrace configuring telemetry subscriptions and securely sending telemetry information via the telemetry stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana. Be part of us and elevate your Enterprise Networking with the newest campus switching and discover the huge array of telemetry capabilities and visualization insights!
Stroll-in Labs for Arms-On
These periods can be found throughout the world of options all through the length of the Cisco Stay week
Effectively monitoring machine statistics in real-time utilizing gRPC Dial-out with IOS XE [LABPRG-2004]
Mannequin-Pushed Telemetry (MDT) addresses most of the shortfalls of legacy monitoring capabilities and supplies an improved approach to handle community gadgets. The standard use of the pull mannequin, and doesn’t scale properly. This lab exhibits gRPC Dial-Out supplies extra environment friendly, dependable mechanism to push telemetry information to gather periodic information & triggered occasions.
Discover and check YANG fashions for model-driven telemetry on IOS XE with Cisco’s YANG Suite [LABOPS-2000]
Contemplating transferring away from SNMP-based community monitoring to model-based telemetry? Your journey may start with the duty of researching complicated and interdependent YANG fashions to search out the info paths wanted to implement your automation or streaming telemetry technique. That’s the place Cisco’s YANG Suite tooling excels and may vastly scale back the time mandatory 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 check community APIs utilizing a range community protocols together with NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI. On this session, members will get helpful hands-on expertise with YANG Suite software program and can study to carry out widespread duties required to help model-driven automation and telemetry tasks. The lab will observe a standard analysis and testing workflow the place the participant will: • Discover YANG fashions utilizing YANG Suite’s graphical interface • Construct RPCs in YANG Suite • Ship RPCs to stay Cisco infrastructure and observe outcomes
Arms-On Lab: Monitoring Cisco IOS XE Gadgets with RESTCONF [LABDEV-2001]
This lab session gives a sensible introduction to monitoring Cisco IOS XE gadgets utilizing RESTCONF. Members will discover ways to create their very own customized monitoring software utilizing Python to retrieve and handle machine configurations, monitor community efficiency, and improve operational visibility. By means of guided workouts, attendees will achieve hands-on expertise in organising RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE gadgets, crafting API requests, and decoding responses. By the tip of the session, members will probably be outfitted with the information and expertise to successfully combine RESTCONF into their community administration workflows. This session requires primary information in programming and API understanding.
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Regardless of the place you’re in your programmability and automation journey there may be at all times 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 Stay this time? No worries! Try Cisco IOS XE programmability periods from the earlier Cisco Stay Occasions:
2025 – Amsterdam
2024 – Melbourne
2024 – Las Vegas
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