But it was only the beginning of this product, so it had not yet many features. Where to start, what to learn?įirst, my questions were: How do I get started with SDN and network automation? What should I learn?īecause I am working for a Cisco partner for enterprise networking, I had the opportunity to see webinars and do some workshops on APIC-EM. I always thought that the network engineer job needs to evolve: since more than twenty years, copying and pasting into a CLI is the standard for network operations, and Notepad is the most common text editor… At the opposite, systems admins can seamlessly move virtual servers from one data-center to another in two clicks. That was the trigger for me, after a few years reading everything about SDN without anything concrete, now this was real! Finally, the network industry is evolving, and the network engineer job will inevitably follow. I started this journey in 2015, when at the Cisco Network Innovation Summit in Prague, I saw a presentation of Tim Szigeti about dynamic QoS with Cisco APIC-EM. In this post, I give you the links towards all the resources which I used to study.īack in 2015: SDN, new fancy buzzword or a paradigm shift? Here is my journey to start learning network programmability and automation, and how I get the Cisco network programmability specialist certification (300-550 exam).

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