Overview

The Implementing Automation for Cisco Service Provider Solutions (SPAUI) v1.0 course prepares you to implement and support automation solutions in a Service Provider network infrastructure, using network programmability principles, protocols, tools, and mechanisms. Through a combination of lessons and hands-on labs, you will learn to deploy, configure, monitor, and operate Service Provider network environments using modern data models. These models allow you to represent operational data and new network management protocols in order to administer hundreds or thousands of devices in a single operation, replacing traditional, time-consuming, error prone, device-by-device Command Line Interface (CLI) management. The course also introduces powerful automation solutions that can streamline network operations.

This course covers Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) data models and validation tools, Representational State Transfer Configuration Protocol RESTCONF and Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) management protocols, model-driven telemetry with Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) and Google Network Management Interface (gNMI), traffic automation with XR Transport Control (XTC), Secure Shell (SSH)-based automation tools like NetMiko and Ansible, orchestration provided by Network Services Orchestration (NSO), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) lifecycle management with Elastic Services Controller (ESC), and network operations automation with WAN Automation Engine (WAE).This course prepares you for the 300-535 Automating and Programming Cisco® Service Provider Solutions (SPAUTO) exam.

Reference : SPAUI

Version : 1.0

Duration :

• Instructor-led training: 3 days in the classroom
• Virtual instructor-led training: 3 days of web-based classes
• E-Learning: Equivalent to 3 days classroom instruction

Target population

 

This course is designed for anyone who performs or seeks to perform a developer role and has one or more years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining applications that are built on top of Cisco platforms.

This course covers specialized material about designing, developing, and debugging applications using Cisco APIs and platforms, and managing and deploying applications on Cisco infrastructure. To fully benefit from this course, you should have three to five years of experience designing and implementing applications that are built on top of Cisco platforms.

The course is appropriate for:

• Network engineers expanding their skill-base to include software and automation
• Developers expanding expertise in automation and DevOps
• Solution architects moving to the Cisco ecosystem
• Infrastructure developers designing hardened production environments

The job roles best suited to the material in this course are:

• Senior network automation engineer
• Senior software developer
• Senior system integration programmer

Additional job roles that could find this course useful are:

• Senior infrastructure architect
• Senior network designer
• Senior test development engineer

Students preparing for Cisco Certified DevNet Professional and Cisco Certified DevNet Specialist – Core certification will also find this material useful.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

• CCNP equivalent level of knowledge for Routing and Switching (R&S)
• Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS XE) and Cisco IOS XR working experience
• SP Operations experience with routing, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
• Network Programmability Basics (Network Programming Foundations, APIs and Protocols, Network Model Driven APIs and Protocols, Configuration Management with Ansible, Service Provider Network Automation workflows)

The following Cisco courses can help you gain the knowledge you need to prepare for this course:

• Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR)
• Implementing Cisco Service Provider Advanced Routing Solutions (SPRI)
• Implementing Cisco Service Provider VPN Services (SPVI)
• Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU)

Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Use NETCONF and RESTCONF programmability protocols on Cisco devices
• Describe and use tools to validate YANG data models on Cisco devices
• Describe and configure model-driven telemetry on Cisco devices
• Describe and configure network traffic automation with Cisco XTC
• Describe and use network automation tools that utilize SSH
• Automate service provider network configuration with Cisco NSO
• Describe how to automate virtualized resources with Cisco ESC
• Describe how to automate service provider WAN with Cisco WAE