Cisco DevNet

104 servers. 2,139 VMs. One run, one Go binary. Eddie Corban's VMware and Nutanix inventory started with a simple question: how many servers? Thanks, Eddie, for sharing the build. blogs.cisco.com/cisco-devnet…

Episode 2 of #MonthOfCVDs is live! 🚀 Cisco Validated Designs, now as code. See how @Cisco and @RedHat Ansible turn proven reference architectures into repeatable, automated deployments. ▶️ youtu.be/uEzVZILs6K0 #Ansible #NetworkAutomation

Planned: 9 months. Shipped: about 5.5. That's PubHub's rewrite, 39% under the team's own pre-AI estimate. The target moved from December to August on sprint data. Thanks to Koushik Dhar for sharing the real numbers. blogs.cisco.com/cisco-devnet…

Your "never in production" list: telnet on, plain HTTP, weak SNMP. Now make it code. With Open Policy Agent, you can catch them in config data before a change reaches a device. Thanks to Lori Jakab for the walkthrough. blogs.cisco.com/cisco-devnet…

Congratulations, Natali Vlatko. Rootly named her to its 2026 Reliability Top 50 for her work as a Kubernetes SIG Docs co-chair. She leads Cisco's Open Source Program Office. More great reads in the newsletter: ciscodevnet.github.io/newsle… #Kubernetes

Chat with your syslog, right in the NOC. Adrian Iliesiu shows how with on-prem AI agents, and Neelesh Pateriya covers CAIPE to query, automate and orchestrate. Thank you both for these Shift.forward() sessions. Register to watch on demand: outshift.cisco.com/events/sh…

1,311 lines of code, hidden by one .gitignore line. Eddie Corban's Go binary, built with Claude, counts 104 servers and 2,139 VMs in one run. Thanks, Eddie, for sharing the mistakes too. Full story in the newsletter: ciscodevnet.github.io/newsle… #golang

You can now test StackWise failover on a real two-member Catalyst 9000 stack. One you don't have to own. Thanks to the DevNet Sandbox team for moving the new Sandbox to Stack Automation. Full details in the newsletter: ciscodevnet.github.io/newsle… #NetworkAutomation

Democratizing AI means more people can read, run and shape it. 🌍 At #WebSummit Lisbon, Poncho takes Masterclass 1 with a live CAIPE 🦸 demo: CNCF Sandbox, fully FOSS. 📅 Nov 12 · 1:00 PM cs.co/9001BH21eZ

claude plugin marketplace add CiscoDevNet/skills That one command puts Cisco's skills catalog in Claude Code. Got seven minutes? Oleksii Borysenko covers the ThousandEyes skill, Project CodeGuard and Spec Kit. See the whole issue: ciscodevnet.github.io/newsle…

During QA, an agent told to reboot a router hit a read-only MCP server. It found the API key, called the Meraki API and rebooted the router anyway. Oren Brigg, NetGru Ep. 118: give your agent read-only credentials too More in this issue: ciscodevnet.github.io/newsle…

New series: DevNet Month of CVDs Ep 1 covers what Cisco Validated Designs are, how they’re built, why automation became essential, and how AI is shaping what’s next. Watch: youtu.be/uqyEqMSjVK0 #CiscoDevNet #NetworkAutomation #AI

Data Centre AIOps using Nexus MCP & Cisco Cloud Control | Ep.121 xitter.twitterapi.xyz/i/broadcasts/1nKOLQMnd…

AI platform engineering shouldn’t need a big budget or a black box! 🧠⚙️ Our Developer Advocate Poncho brings live CAIPE 🦸 demos (open-source AI agents platform) to the AI Leaders in Tech Night in Lisbon 🇵🇹, Mon Nov 9. cs.co/6012BHavWj #AI #OpenSource

🕯️ In loving memory of Copy-Paste Config. Thanks for the road. We’ll take it from here. This Día de Muertos, we honor the workflows that paved the way for agentic automation. 🌼 What tool are you grateful for but glad to leave behind? #CiscoDevNet #DíaDeMuertos #AgenticAI

🐺 “Perfectly tame by day. Beware the next model update.” Your agent aced every test, then a model update shipped. Nothing crashed. Nothing alerted. Cure: Cisco AI Defense AI Validation (continuous red-teaming) + Splunk to catch drift. #Halloween #AIAgents #DevNet

New DevNet Sandbox experience, same free labs. Jesus Illescas shows the new catalog, how reservations work, and the Stack Automation by Quali behind it 🧪 Watch: youtu.be/eG-D11GCChI #CiscoDevNet #DevNetSandbox

Post-Quantum Cryptography in the Real World | Ep. 120 xitter.twitterapi.xyz/i/broadcasts/1oKMvNyMa…