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Unit 12 Worksheet

Instructions

Fill out the worksheet as you progress through the lab and discussions. Hold your worksheets until the end to turn them in as a final submission packet.

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Unit 12 Recording

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Discussion Post #1

Scenario

You have a set of older routers that have been traditionally connected to and configured over ssh via the command line (CLI) in Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS). You decide to backup the current configs of all routers with Ansible.

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  1. How might you lay out the cisco.ios.ios_config module to backup up everything to a local folder on your jump server?

Discussion Post #2

Scenario

You’ve read that software defined networking (SDN) is the new hotness in the network engineering world. Your organization mostly uses VPC’s inside of AWS and you want to learn more about what SDN means in the cloud.

  1. Can you find some good SDN configuration blogs about the topic and prepare a couple paragraphs for a memo to your other engineers on the team?

Info

Submit your input by following the link. The discussion posts are done in Discord Forums.
Link to Discussion Posts

Definitions

  • SDN – (any related terminology)
    • Control Plane

Digging Deeper

  1. Read about a SDN tool that is useful in infrastructure: https://www.pulumi.com/guides/tags/networking/

Reflection Questions

  1. What questions do you still have about this week?
  2. How are you going to use what you’ve learned in your current role?