David Bombal and Hank Preston discuss Network Automation, Network Programmability, NetDevOps and the future. What should you learn? CCNA or Python? And many other topics!

We discussed the following:

• Hank Preston Introduction

• How did you transition from being a traditional Network Engineer to a NetDevOps Engineer?

• What would you recommend as the first step?

• What should I start with? Ansible or Python?

• Should I study CCNA or Python? CCNP or Python? CCIE or Python?

• Hybrid Engineer, Next-Gen-Network Engineer, NetDevOps

• What is DevOps? NetDevOps?

• Is there a Cisco NetDevOps certification? CCNA/CCNP/CCIE type path?

• What is DevNet? Is DevNet free?

• DevNet Overview Demo (Free labs, free training, free resources, get support).

• DevNet RESTCONF, NETCONF demo

• What are containers?

• What is Docker?

• What are Microservices

• What is Kubernetes?

• Demo Kubernetes and ACI working together

Other topics were also discussed.

All the best!

David