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Cisco ACI Cookbook

Cisco ACI Cookbook

By : Fordham
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Cisco ACI Cookbook

Cisco ACI Cookbook

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By: Fordham

Overview of this book

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a tough architecture that automates IT tasks and accelerates data-center application deployments. This book focuses on practical recipes to help you quickly build, manage, and customize hybrid environment for your organization using Cisco ACI. You will begin by understanding the Cisco ACI architecture and its major components. You will then configure Cisco ACI policies and tenants. Next you will connect to hypervisors and other third-party devices. Moving on, you will configure routing to external networks and within ACI tenants and also learn to secure ACI through RBAC. Furthermore, you will understand how to set up quality of service and network programming with REST, XML, Python and so on. Finally you will learn to monitor and troubleshoot ACI in the event of any issues that arise. By the end of the book, you will gain have mastered automating your IT tasks and accelerating the deployment of your applications.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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What this book covers

Chapter 1, Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric, covers the issues that ACI can overcome and the building blocks of the ACI fabric and walks you through the interface of the controller.

Chapter 2, Configuring Policies and Tenants, begins our journey of creating an environment for our tenants and applying policies to them.

Chapter 3, Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties), builds on the foundation of our fabric and extends it, using VMWare and third-party devices.

Chapter 4, Routing in ACI, shows how we will unleash our ACI fabric to the rest of the network using IPv4, IPv6, and multicast.

Chapter 5, ACI Security, secures our fabric by implementing centralized role-based security.

Chapter 6, Implementing Quality of Service in ACI, walks us through prioritizing our traffic through the fabric.

Chapter 7, Network Programmability with ACI, explores the ways in which we can control our fabric through APIs.

Chapter 8, Monitoring ACI, shows us how to stay on top of any issues as they arise.

Chapter 9, Troubleshooting ACI, walks us through a bottom-up troubleshooting approach.

Chapter 10, An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI, brings everything we have covered into one complete scenario.

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