Join Keith Barker as he introduces you to the skills you'll cover throughout this series. Gain an understanding of networking devices and end-to-end IP communications.

Join Ben Finkel as he introduces you to the skills you'll cover throughout this series. Learn how to use software development techniques to support network automation and software-defined networking (SDN).

Join Knox Hutchinson as he introduces you to network automation and the skills you'll cover throughout this series. Learn how networking and software development can work together.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you how to set up an environment in Visual Studio Code. Learn how to customize VS Code to suit your development needs and personal tastes by using themes, interface configuration options, plugins, workspaces, and more.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you the basic statements of programming and development. Gain an understanding of the purpose and role of control-flow statements in programming languages. Learn about if-then-else conditional statements, loops, functions, object-oriented programming (OOP), classes, and more.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you how design patterns are used to abstract solutions to common software development challenges. Gain an understanding of a variety of software design patterns, such as the singleton design pattern, observer design pattern, and Model–View–Controller (MVC) design pattern.

Join Ben Finkel as he covers the fundamentals of Git, including the installation process.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you how to collaborate with git on a basic level. Gain an understanding of how collaborating on a single git repository can work for a remote team. Learn how to copy an existing repo by using git clone, how to use git push and git pull, how to work simultaneously on two timelines with branching, and how to merge branches.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you how to recognize and read XML, JSON, and YAML documents. Gain an understanding of XML syntax, elements, tags, and attributes; the Document Object Model (DOM); Javascript Object Notation (JSON) strings, numbers, booleans, objects, and arrays; YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML) syntax, strings, numbers, floats, and booleans; and more.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you how to import and export XML, JSON, and YAML data files by using Python libraries. Gain a deeper understanding of Python programming and data structures.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you about RESTful APIs, how they're used, and how they differ from SOAP APIs.

Join Ben Finkel as he covers the request and response components of an API call. Gain an understanding of the HTTP request method, HTTP response codes, HTTP headers, and more.

Join Ben Finkel as he covers the components used to transmit data alongside RESTful API requests and responses. Gain an understanding of HTTP query strings, payloads, and more.

Join Ben Finkel as he covers the authentication of HTTP and RESTful API calls and shows you how to use Postman to ease that process. Gain an understanding of Base64 encoding and encryption, JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), and the various forms of HTTP authentication: basic, API key, and token.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you about Postman, a client-side GUI tool you can use to write and test API calls. Learn how to use Postman to create and store API requests, set up basic authentication for your requests, and organize your saved requests into collections and folders. Gain an understanding of Postman scripts and environments.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the concepts of network programmability and automation. Gain an understanding of what network programmability is, how it differs from automation, and why it matters. Learn about devices and controllers, and how they relate to a software-defined network (SDN).

Join Knox Hutchinson as he helps you prepare your study environment to earn DevNet certification from Cisco. Gain an understanding of the space you need to optimally prepare.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the concepts of data models, data schema, and YANG modeling techniques. Gain an understanding of what Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) is, and learn how to interpret a YANG data model.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the concepts of the NETCONF protocol. Gain an understanding of NETCONF scripts. Learn how to enable NETCONF on a Cisco IOS-XE device and how to automate networks with NETCONF.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to develop Python scripts that leverage RESTCONF for network programmability and automation. Gain an understanding of REST APIs, the RESTful framework, and Postman.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he covers Cisco Nexus devices, NX-OS, and NX-API. Learn how to enable NX-API CLI on a Nexus device, how to use the NX-API CLI Sandbox and Postman, and how to script an API interaction with Python.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the REST API of Cisco Nexus 9K devices. Gain an understanding of the NX-API object model and the Management Information Tree on Nexus 9K devices. Learn how to implement Python scripts for the NX-API REST API, how to use the Visore GUI, and how to set up a Postman environment.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to retrieve data from a network device by using the show cdp neighbors command, how to parse data, and how to dynamically update configurations on a network device based on the parsed data. Gain an understanding of programming, networking, and Nexus-specific skills.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the Cisco Meraki enterprise cloud controller. Gain an understanding of Cisco Meraki capabilities, automation techniques, the SDK, and the dashboard API. Learn how to set up Postman to work with your Meraki environment and how to build a Python script.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to install the Meraki software development kit (SDK), leverage SDK documentation, and automate tasks in Python using the SDK.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to describe the ACI object model, understand API capabilities, and script REST API automation tasks. Gain an understanding of data center automation, Management Information Trees, and the Python Requests library.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to install and use the ACI Toolkit and SDK to automate ACI tasks. Learn how to acquire the ACI Toolkit documentation, how to create a tenant by using the correct SDK, how to leverage sample scripts from the ACI Toolkit, and how to use apps from the ACI Toolkit.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the concepts of the DNA Center platform and how to automate tasks with Python. Learn how to acquire DNA Center documentation, how to set up a Postman environment for DNA Center, and how to automate the Assurance API by using scripting.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the concepts of the DNA Center SDK. Gain the skills you need to gather network information and device-specific information from DNA Center. Learn how to install the DNA Center and explore the documentation, how to authenticate to the DNA Center, how to troubleshoot client health issues by using the SDK, and how to automate DNA Center tasks.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to describe and automate Cisco collaboration platforms including CUCM and Webex. Learn how to automate the administration of CUCM by using the AXL API, how to query the UDS REST API, and how to script against UDS by using the Python Requests library and Postman.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he covers the Webex Teams platform and how you can use it to automate messaging and collaboration. Learn how to create a team and a room by using the Python Requests library, how to post messages to a room, and how to get started with the Webex Teams SDK.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about Cisco SD-WAN capabilities and API options. Learn how to get started with the vManage REST API, how to set up a Postman environment for SD-WAN, and how to create Python scripts for an SD-WAN lab.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about Cisco’s security platform and automation options. Gain an understanding of the FirePower Management Center (FMC). Learn about FirePower authentication with Postman and Python.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to create a threat-centric access policy in Firepower Management Center (FMC) via API calls. Learn how to create access control policies by using Python scripts, how to add rules to a policy, and more.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the concepts of automating the Cisco ASA firewall and network security appliance. Learn how to set up a Postman environment for ASA, how to perform ASA automation with the Python Requests library, and how to install, configure, and explore the ASA's REST API.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he covers core UCS management offerings and teaches you how to automate UCS Manager. Gain an understanding of the PowerShell modules you can use by leveraging the Cisco UCS PowerTool suite. Learn how to interact with the UCS Manager by using the Python UCSM SDK, how to enable automation with UCS Director, and how to manage a data center with Cisco computing tools.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he covers the capabilities and automation deployment options of Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator (NSO). Learn how to install NSO, how to programmatically interact with Cisco IOS devices by using NSO's REST API, and how to manage network services and individual devices with NSO.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he shows you how to automate Cisco networks with PowerShell. Gain an understanding of network automation skills with the PowerShell scripting language. Learn how to get started with the correct version of PowerShell, how to hit a RESTCONF endpoint via PowerShell, and how to interact with Meraki, ACI, DNA, and the SD-WAN platform by using PowerShell.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you how to successfully implement software and IT services. Gain an understanding of application deployment models such as cloud computing and edge computer. Learn about virtual machines, containers, and the various cloud deployment models: public, private, and hybrid.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you the fundamentals of containers and Docker. Learn how to install Docker, how to build a Dockerfile based on a basic Flask REST API, and how to publish an image to a Docker Hub repository.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), the software engineering practice that enables fast, routine deployment of software changes. Gain an understanding of the CI/CD process of building, testing, delivering, and deploying your code. Learn how CI/CD can help reduce the time between the development of your software and its delivery to users.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he covers the difference between data in transit and data at rest. Learn how to secure data with various protocols and tools. Gain an understanding of environment variables, encryption, and more.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you about the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and covers common security threats and attacks. Gain an understanding of cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and cross-site request forgery (XSRF).

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to operate a Linux operating system and Bash shell. Gain an understanding of the file permissions and popular distributions in Linux. Learn how to perform basic file operations from the command line and how to work with Linux apps (packages).

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you how DevOps should be iterative, incremental, continuous, and automated. Learn about the DevOps principle of end-to-end responsibility.

Join Ben Finkel as he teaches you the fundamentals of test-driven development (TDD) and shows you how to write unit tests in order to apply the practices of TDD. Gain an understanding of the unittest module and the Chai TDD assertion library.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he covers the foundational skills you'll need to operate Ansible for network automation. Gain an understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC), DevOps, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). Learn how to install Ansible, how to set up an inventory file to manage groups of devices, and how to get started with Ansible modules, playbooks, variables, conditionals, and loops.

Join Knox Hutchinson as he teaches you how to implement Nexus and YANG model-driven programmability into your network. Gain an understanding of network modules, RESTCONF modules, RESTCONF GET, and Jinja templating. Learn how to create loopback addresses with a CRUD operation and how to dynamically change playbooks based on the device by using host_vars and group_vars.

Join Keith Barker as he teaches you about the concepts of Layer 2 switching in an Ethernet network. Gain an understanding of the OSI model, TCP/IP model (or protocol stack), MAC addresses, VLANs, and trunks.

Join Keith Barker as he teaches you about IP routing, including IP addresses, routes, subnet masks, network prefixes, and default gateways. Gain an understanding of the network layer of the TCP/IP model (protocol suite), the format of IPv4 addresses, the purpose of default routes, and more.

Join Keith Barker as he teaches you about Layer 4 of the TCP/IP protocol suite, the Transport layer. Gain an understanding of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

Join Keith Barker as he teaches you about Application layer services and how they interact with the TCP/IP protocol stack. Gain an understanding of well-known ports, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, NTP, clients, servers, and multilayer switches.

Join Keith Barker as he teaches you how to identify switches and routers in a topology and how to use basic show commands. Gain an understanding of a firewall, intrusion detection system (IDS), intrusion prevention system (IPS), and load balancer. Learn about high availability (HA), fault tolerance, and network address translation (NAT).

Join Keith Barker as he covers the management, control, and data planes of a network device. Learn how to implement OSPF, and gain an understanding of spanning tree protocol (STP) and how it relates to the control plane of a Layer 2 switch.

Join Keith Barker as he covers several factors that can impact network services, including NAT, port filtering, and proxies. Gain an understanding of Layer 2 (switching) and Layer 3 (routing) functions; security devices, such as firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (IPS); virtual private networks (VPNs); and more.