Cisco ACI cookbook : accelerating application deployment and IT processes / Stuart Fordham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fordham, Stuart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer network protocols.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure cookbook

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Over 90 recipes to maximize automated solutions and policy-drive application profiles using Cisco ACI About This Book Confidently provision your virtual and physical infrastructure for application deployment Integrate Cisco ACI with hypervisors and other third party devices Packed with powerful recipes to automate your IT operations Who This Book Is For If you are a network administrator, system administrator, or engineer and are aware of the basics of Cisco ACI but want to start using it to automate your tasks, then this book is for you What You Will Learn Master the Cisco ACI architecture Discover the ACI fabric with easy-to-follow steps Set up quality of service within ACI Configure external networks with Cisco ACI Integrate with VMware and track VMware virtual machines Configure apply and verify access policies Extend or migrate a VMware virtual-machine LAN inside the ACI fabric Monitor ACI with third party tools and troubleshoot issues In Detail 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. Style and approach A set of exciting recipes to automate your IT operations related to datacenters, the Cloud, and networking tasks

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric

Introduction

Understanding ACI and the APIC

An overview of the ACI fabric

ACI hardware

Understanding third-party integration

Converting Cisco from Nexus NX-OS mode to ACI mode

Uploading the ACI image

How to do it...

Method 1 - Using SCP to copy the ACI image from the APIC

Method 2 - Using SCP to copy the ACI image from another SCP server

Method 3 - Using a USB drive to copy the ACI image

Upgrading the image

Logging in

Reverting to NX-OS mode

ACI fabric overlay

An introduction to the GUI

System menu

Tenants menu

Fabric menu

VM Networking

L4-L7 Services

Admin

Operations

Chapter 2: Configuring Policies and Tenants

Creating fabric policies

How it works...

Creating access policies

There's more...

Creating tenants

Configuring bridge domains

Configuring contexts

Creating application network profiles

Creating endpoint groups

Using contracts between tenants

Creating filters

Creating contracts within tenants

Creating management contracts

Chapter 3: Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties)

Installing device packages

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more.

Creating VMM domains and integrating VMWare

There's more…

Associating vCenter domains with a tenant

Deploying the AVS

Discovering VMWare endpoints

Adding virtual machines to a tenant

Tracking ACI endpoints

Integrating with A10

Deploying the ASAv

Integrating with OpenStack

Integrating with F5

Getting ready

Integrating with Citrix NetScaler

Chapter 4: Routing in ACI

Creating a DHCP relay

Creating a DHCP relay using the Common tenant

Creating a global DHCP relay

Utilizing DNS

Routing with BGP

Configuring a layer-3 outside interface for tenant networks

Creating routed interfaces

Configuring an external SVI

Configuring routed sub-interfaces

Associating a bridge domain with an external network

Using route reflectors

Routing with OSPF

Routing with EIGRP

Using IPv6 within ACI

Setting up multicast for ACI tenants

Configuring multicast on the bridge domain and interfaces

ACI transit routing and route peering.

How to do it...

Chapter 5: ACI Security

AAA and multiple tenant support

Understanding ACI role-based access control (RBAC)

Creating local users

Creating security domains

Limiting users to tenants

Connecting to a RADIUS server

Connecting to an LDAP server

Connecting to a TACACS+ server

Chapter 6: Implementing Quality of Service in ACI

Preserving existing CoS settings

Configuring user-defined classes

Creating a basic QoS configuration

Verifying QoS

Chapter 7: Network Programmability with ACI

Browsing the object store using the Object Store Browser

Programming the ACI through REST

Authenticating through REST and XML

Creating a tenant using REST and XML

Deleting a tenant using REST and XML

Creating an APN and an EPG using REST and XML

Creating an application profile and EPG using REST

Authenticating through REST and JSON

Creating a tenant using REST and JSON

Using the Python SDK

Logging into the APIC using Cobra

Creating a tenant using the SDK

How to do it.

Chapter 8: Monitoring ACI

Finding faults

Viewing events

Tenant events

Fabric events

AAA events

Navigating the audit logs

Setting up Call Home

Configuring SNMP

Configuring Syslog

Configuring NetFlow

Chapter 9: Troubleshooting ACI

Layer 2 troubleshooting

FEX troubleshooting

SSL troubleshooting

Switch diagnostics

APIC troubleshooting

Upgrading the ACI software

VMM troubleshooting

Routing verifications

Troubleshooting external connectivity

Multicast troubleshooting

QoS troubleshooting

Chapter 10: An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI

Background

Before you start...

Setting up in-band and out-of-band access to the nodes

Creating the security domain

Creating the VLAN domain

Creating the VMWare domain

Creating the tenant

Creating the VRF

Creating the bridge domains

Creating the applications and EPGs

How it works.

Creating the contract

Creating an L4-L7 device

Creating service templates

Setting up the client VMs

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 22, 2017).

ISBN:

9781787122772

1787122778

OCLC:

993443653