Software Development and Design
Install a basic development toolset
Verify the tools are all working as expected
Setting up your Linux (Ubuntu) workstation as a development environment
Setting up your Windows workstation as a development environment
Setting up your macOS workstation as a development environment
Installation Python enviroment
Installation Text Editors and IDE (atom,snapd)
Development tools and clients
Installation Postman for Rest APIs
Installation container enviroment
Application container engine Docker
Understand the purpose of a development environment
Learn the simplest tool chain you’ll need to begin exploring programmability skills and labs
Local Development Environments
Hosted Development Environments
Cloud Development Environments
A brief introduction to Git
Understand what problems Version Control Systems help us solve
Learn and practice your first Git workflows
How to use your Python interpreter
Python’s basic data types and how to define variables
How to use dot “.” syntax to access methods and attributes inside objects
How to use conditionals to inspect variables and control the flow of your program
How to create functions that modularize your code and make it easier to scale, maintain and reus.
How to create and use Python’s list, tuple, and dictionary data structures
Where to go to find other collections
Python’s two looping mechanisms and when to use them
How Python files are structured and executed
Basic debugging tools and processes
Introduce you to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
Microservices track
Basic understanding of using Docker
Parsing JSON using Python
Understand the basics of reading and parsing HTTP content using Python.
Learn how to use Python to extract only the JSON data you want using the JSON library
Introduction to XML
Understand the basic concepts of the XML format and content
Data exchange between computer systems
earn what the Guest Shell is and what capabilities it has
Learn how to get started with the Guest Shell on IOS XE
Understand how the Guest Shell communicates with IOS XE and outside network
Learn how to install Linux applications inside the Guest Shell

Understanding and Using APIs
Introduction to REST and APIs
Understand REST API concepts.
Learn the basics of consuming REST APIs
Learn the standard verbs for REST APIs
Understand JSON and XML Payloads
Practical examples using REST APIs
Introduction to the value of coding
The Value-Proposition: Why engineers should learn to code
What Changed: A brief run-down on how coding has advanced to the point of being useful to infrastructure engineers
Your Future Job Role: What your day-to-day job may look like in this new world
Why Python: Why we choose the Python language for this module and track
More detailed breakdown of REST and APIs
Learn about API documentation.
Figure out REST API authentication based on the documentation
Learn about REST API endpoints
Understand REST API verbs.
Understand REST API parameters
Learn about data formats
Look at REST API tools with examples
Introduction to using Postman to make API calls
Understand the basics of consuming REST APIs
Learn how to use the Postman REST Client to make API calls
Learn how environments in Postman are useful for switching between endpoints or APIs
Learn how collections in Postman can give you reference lists of API calls

Cisco Platforms and Development
Introduction to Cisco DNA Center Northbound APIs
Cisco DNA Center API Overview
Cisco DNA Center Northbound API Modules
What and Why of Model Driven Programmability
Introducing YANG Data Modeling for the Network
Exploring IOS XE YANG Data Models with NETCONF
Exploring IOS XE YANG Data Models with RESTCONF
Invoke Webex REST APIs from the interactive documentation
Building Python Requests to Read and Create Webex Teams API Items
Understanding ACI
ACI Programmability Options
Introduction to ACI Toolkit
Introduction to Cisco SD-WAN REST APIs
Cisco SD-WAN CLI application developed using the vManage REST API
Using Postman to interact with the Cisco SD-WAN REST API
Using Python to interact with the Cisco SD-WAN REST API
NSO as a provisioning tool
Nexus OS Programmability and Automation Overview
Using the Meraki Dashboard API with Postman
Meraki location scanning API Python
Meraki Location Scanning API Python
Meraki External Captive Portal
Meraki Wireless Health

Application Deployment and Security
Introducing Containers
What are containers and how they work
Package applications and dependencies
Guarantee portability and consistency of execution
Keep an application isolated.
Take advantage of the isolation offered by a VM without the overhead
Bare metal or single host
Toolchain advantage
Get or create a Docker Image
Dockerfile
Application Dependencies
OS Userspace Containers
Testing Isolation
Build a Docker Image
Building a Custom Cisco Learning Labs Container
Build a web server container
Microservices overview
Cloud-Native Applications
How Microservices and Containers Help
Microservices Automation
Managing a Plethora of Containers

Infrastructure and Automation
Building an IOx Application with Docker
Create a small IOx Application to run on the Sandbox IOx device
Package the IOx Application with the ioxclient Docker tools
Deploy the IOx Application
Monitor and review the IOx Application
Test the output of the IOx Application
Deploy a Docker application to Cisco Fog Director and IOx
Deploy packaged Docker application to multiple virtual IOx Instances
Monitor and review the IOx Application on multiple devices
Test the output of the IOx Applications from multiple endpoints
Introduction to Meraki integrations
Meraki Dashboard API
Meraki WebHook Alerts
Meraki Location Scanning Integration
Meraki MV Sense
Meraki External Captive Portal Integration
Introduction to Configuration Management
Overview of Configuration Management
Comparison of Configuration Management Tools
Ansible Use Cases
Running ad-hoc commands across multiple hosts
Simple task automation
Workflow orchestration
Introduction to Ansible
Overview of Ansible Components
Reviewing the Ansible CLI Tool
The Ansible Control Machine
Basics of Authentication
Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands
Ansible Configuration Files
Ansible Playbooks
YAML Basics
Mappings and Nested Data Structures
Scalars, Odds and Ends
Understanding Ansible Plays
Basics of the Ansible Domain-Specific Language (DSL)
Ansible Roles and Running Ansible Playbooks
Using Ansible Variables
Getting Hands On with Ansible

Network Fundamentals
IPv4 Addresses and subnets
Learn about IPv4 addresses
Understand how to use binary numbers
Learning about subnets, hosts, and using subnetting
Understand device compatibility with networking
Understand how devices find each other
Routers and Switches
Understand and configure switches, routers, and interfaces
Understand SDN and REST in the context of networking
Software-Defined Networks (SDN)
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Learn about network topologies
Understand network cable categories and types
Study the networking OSI and TCP/IP models
Learn about IPv4 addresses.
Understand how to use binary numbers.
Learning about subnets, hosts, and using subnetting