This course will help you:

• Install, configure, and maintain a Cisco Network Services Orchestrator solution
• Apply DevOps best practices for Cisco NSO development, operations, and administrative tasks
• Implement Layered Service Architecture (LSA) within a Cisco NSO solution

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe network and IT convergence
• Describe Cisco NSO architecture
• Describe Linux
• Configure Cisco NSO
• Set up access control to Cisco NSO system
• Describe Cisco NSO Integration Options
• Explain version control systems and basic git concepts
• Describe the purpose of continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Implement Cisco NSO high availability
• Describe scalable system management
• Describe software development methodologies
• Describe service maintenance
• Perform NED upgrades
• Use Cisco NSO for managing services and their associated device configurations
• Describe Cisco NSO change management
• Explain service problem management
• Use Cisco NSO for service monitoring and compliance reporting
• Describe Cisco NSO inventory management
• Describe Cisco NSO use cases

• Introducing Network and IT Convergence
• Introducing Cisco NSO Architecture
• Introducing Linux
• Explaining Cisco NSO Setup
• Exploring Access Control
• Describing Integration Options
• Explaining Version Control System
• Describing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Introducing Scalability and High Availability
• Describing Scalable System Management
• Describing Software Development Methodologies
• Introducing Service Maintenance
• Performing Network Element Driver (NED) Upgrades
• Introducing Configuration Management
• Describing Change Management
• Explaining Service Problem Management
• Explaining Service Monitoring and Compliance Reporting
• Introducing Inventory Management
• Describing Cisco NSO Use Cases

Lab outline

• Perform NSO System Install
• Implement Role-Based Access and PAM
• Using Cisco NSO APIs
• Learn to work with Git
• Use NSO in Docker
• Configure High Availability
• Migrating a Monolithic Service to LSA
• Deploying the LSA Services
• Use the Network Connectivity Tool (NCT)
• Perform Service Backup and Restore
• Migrate a CDM Device
• Build a NETCONF NED
• Replacing a Device
• Troubleshoot NSO Alarms and Services
• Creating a Compliance Report

• DevOps engineers
• Integration engineers
• Network and software architects
• Network engineers
• Software engineers
• System administrators

Before you take this course, we recommend that you have the knowledge and skills obtainable by attending the Cisco Network Services Orchestrator Foundation (NSO201) class, including:

• Basic knowledge of the Cisco Command-Line Interface (CLI)
• Basic knowledge of the CLI of UNIX-like operating systems
• Basic knowledge of Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) data modelling
• Basic knowledge of Python software development