Learn how to start your journey to become a Cisco Certified DevNet Expert.

hey snackers it's finally here i have great news for you devnet expert exam has officially been announced and in snack minute episode 44 amir programmability lead julio gomez and cisco distinguished engineer joe clark go over how to start your journey to become a devnet expert [Applause] [Music] hello snackers this is kareem skander i'm a tech advocate with cisco learning and certification hey everyone matt dinapoli i'm a manager of developer advocacy with cisco devnet welcome to episode 44 of devnet snack minute devnet snack minute is your 10 minutes weekly all things devnet where we talk about coding apis and just some cool stuff that you'd like to know about and the cool thing we're going to talk to you about today is wait for it the devnet expert exam you've all been waiting for it it's been a couple of years yeah it's all ready to go with our returning guests julio gomez and joe clark do you guys mind introducing yourself yeah my name is i'm lucky enough to be running programmability across in er but i'm mostly famous because i'm friends with kareem and matt [Laughter] i guess i yeah i i can i can join in that as well i know both of them um my name is joe clark a distinguished engineer at cisco um like julio love programmability love automation i'm very excited about this this new devnet expert certification are you both ccies i am yes sir julio how about you okay so i presume that you guys got those a while ago um can you please let us know why something like this uh would be interesting to you um and adding on to the ccies you already have i'll i'll speak for myself so i did get mine back in 98 back when it was a two day sorry 99 back when it was a two-day test and i remember i was doing network management i was in tact supporting network management at the time which was software i actually was coding in perl and in java back when they were hot and i thought you know what i'm not really i mean i i've learned the networking i've studied bgp excessively but as soon as i got my ccie and i did the happy dance i said you know what i'm really not doing this my job is more operations my job is more on the software the management side of things and so when things like embedded event manager and typical scripting opened up at cisco that was what really interested me so you can imagine this a an exam at the expert level where we're making automation and program we're saying that these skills are critical for this this the senior and seasoned network engineer um this really speaks to my souls this is the kind of thing that i want to assert that i have and that i am great at yeah and it sounds like it's been about 20 years coming too joe so that's great um julia what's your perspective on that well it's a very similar story and you know like sergeant pepper said you know it was 20 years ago today well my case almost um and i think remember pretty vividly you know the excitement as if it were yesterday getting into the beautiful world of routing protocols arp tables spanning tree well maybe not not that one but but everything else was kind of new and magical you know these days i feel i feel exactly the same way the same kind of excitement when talking about all things apis you know it might be automation python restaurant young data models infrastructure exploding multi-cloud we are just crossing the customs you know from the old way of doing things to an amazingly brand new way based on automation integration and innovation and our new devnet expert certification is is kind of the bridge to that new world right it encompasses all relevant technologies for networking engineers willing to morph into this next generation net devops engineers so this is our future so how could i not be interested yeah sounds good yeah that's awesome so so julio and and joe uh this kind of next question to you is um you guys are both ccies obviously you're great network engineers how does the you know the devnet expert exam help you with your daily activities and would it actually would i need to know what bgp is well in my opinion at least you know managing networks is well in fact any kind of infrastructure it's kind of hard and maybe it is because i'm just simulation but it always seems to require a lot of work right since day zero when you have to deploy everything and get everything up and running and configuration changes across big networks they also require a lot of effort resources consistency in doing things and it gets even harder when you get to to run those changes during a maintenance window at 2am you know we human beings are not very good at doing repetitive things you know while sleeping so uh the whole life cycle is shining for me and the bigger the network the more challenging so the new devnet expert certification kind of gives us engineers all their required superpowers you know to not only manage networks at scale but also to innovate by creating things that maybe did not exist before so does your director for example dream about having a dashboard that displays all the specific metrics that are relevant to their business you can create it with apis or does the rit department dream about infrastructure automatically opening tickets you know when there is a problem there is an issue you can create for me that's kind of mind-blowing so again how could i not be interested yeah joe do you have anything to add to julio's uh julio's ideas there yeah yeah i'll i'll i'll touch on that that last question you still need to know bgp or insert network concept here julio mentioned dashboards and metrics and and being able to automate a a or innovate at the network level with automation and apis if you don't understand what you're automating if you don't understand the nuances of it be it bgp be it just adding vlans to networks and making sure those vlans propagate everywhere you're not going to do very well here so yes you do have to know what you're what you're automating and and i'm you ask how we're how we're going to use this what what is it going to mean to us i'm using these skills every day so internally we've got a project to reinvigorate our learning and certifications data center with an automation first mentality and i'm helping with that with the with the design and the roll out of that using all of these automation or infrastructure as code type of practices uh that kind of discipline and you have to know the network the underlying network like when we're using cisco nso to automate configuration changes like adding vlans or connecting ports or creating vpcs across nexus 9k switches you kind of need to know what those parameters are to build the templates to understand the yang the yang leafs you want to create as part of your model and then the python code to glue it all together and make it work and fingers crossed cisco live europe is coming up and and i helped to to run the network there and we're also building out we're starting to build out our infrastructure there we're very hopeful that it's going to happen and with all of the automation practices that that i've learned in these past two years and i continue to grow i continue to learn and evolve it's the same thing we're bringing out sources of truth we're using cisco nso we're trying to drive things with a very automation-first mentality so absolutely it means a lot to me i'm i love this i'm using this in my day job and yes you need to be as a network engineer to automate you still need to be that that network engineer and have those network shops hey joe while we're on that topic can you just touch a little bit and i'm sure we're going to have a link to the blueprint but could you touch a little bit on the topics of the blueprint me going into you know preparing into the to the devnet expert and it's not ccia.net we got to make that clear it's the devnet expert exam um what are the some of the topics that i should be you know familiar with uh well absolutely you mentioned the blueprints definitely snackers go check that blueprint out you're going to be faced with first three hours of design and that's going to look at kind of best practices around automation around securing network automation things like how would i go about integrating a a ci cd workflow into my organization what are some of those best practice how can i bring uh forth a team and make use of some of these practices and then you're going to dive into the five hours of what we call the do you're going to develop you're going to oper operationalize and then optimize some of these these solutions and that's going to involve infrastructure as code with tools like nso with ansible terraform i know julio you're looking at containers and container orchestration architecture there um and we're also looking at straight up network programmability sharpen up those yang chops look at what rest comp and netcomp can give you look at what you can pull off the network in terms of telemetry and and one of the things we're striving for julio and i are both on this team is making an exam that feels practical not that feels like a science project but things that you as a network automation expert as that cisco certified devnet expert will see yourself doing day in day out matt i'm pumped are we gonna do this on day one i don't know after hearing that list of uh technologies and things i gotta bone up on out i mean i got some of it but that's a lot you're just gonna do it man commit and do it all right all right all right uh maybe i'm in all right we'll see so we just got the a list of a bunch of technologies we got to worry about um we kind of got a feel for what the exam's gonna kind of put us through eight hours geez um i took two back-to-back uh i took the devnet professional in the devnet uh enterprise networking back-to-back those are i don't wanna say just but those are multiple choice exams um and i know this is a little more hands-on and experiential oriented oriented that's a mouthful there um but julio can you give us an idea of ways that people can maybe start to prepare now um for when we're able to launch this publicly or actually in production absolutely even though there is not an official training you know that you can take and really go through this you have kind of the equivalent to the theoretical exam that we were doing previously for the cci right and that's kind of the death core exam that you have right now that will get you also into professional development so that's a very good starting point you know about the training official training that you have there but also you know passing that exam will give you a very nice overview of what topics you need to cover but furthermore if you want to dig a little bit deeper into the the rabbit hole you can just go and take a look at the blueprint because next to each one of the sections with the percentages that you need you know to invest in each one of the sections you also have specific learning labs and materials that devnet offers that are readily available for you to get started so things around containers version control infrastructure as code you know terraform and so you know all the different topics that will be relevant to you and i would like to reflect on something that i think it's very very interesting about this blueprint now it's very detailed so you can really get a feel of what you need to to learn and where you need to invest your time but also that the kind of skills that you need to learn for deadlock expert will not come naturally for us classic cisco engineers we need to do a conscious effort you know to invest our time to study on these specific topics because they are not the evolution of the classic ospf bgp and vlogs no but this is a different world so let's all make sure that we make that conscious effort to morph into next generation net devops engineers the real world is a future career in the branding world of automating everything and i mean automating everything so that lazy people like me and be very very happy in the daily sales motion well i mean i think that that is a good way to end this devnet snack minutes unfortunately that's all the time we have julio that's an excellent sentiment to close it out um everyone check out the information on the blueprint for the devnet expert and keep an eye out for uh release dates when you can start scheduling your testing thank you guys again and catch you next time thank you snackers and thank you for your intro [Music] you

Channel: Cisco DevNet

Views: 867

Keywords: Developer, Cisco DevNet, network programmability

Id: 9GmP3-URxEE

Length: 13min 27sec (807 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 02 2021