Cisco API examples

Cisco Systems, the 800-pound gorilla in the networking space, have not missed out on the trend of network automation. In their push for network automation, they have made various in-house developments, product enhancements, partnerships, and many external acquisitions. However, with product lines spanning routers, switches, firewalls, servers (unified computing), wireless, collaboration software and hardware, and analytic software, it is hard to know where to start.

Since this book focuses on Python and networking, we will scope the Cisco examples in this section to the main networking products. In particular, we will cover the following:

• Nexus with NX-API
• Cisco NETCONF and YANG examples
• Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
• Cisco Meraki examples

For the NX-API and NETCONF examples in this chapter, we can either use the Cisco DevNet always-on lab devices mentioned in Chapter 2, Low-Level Network Device Interactions...