NSO303 – Cisco NSO Administration and DevOps

Course Overview

The Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) Administration and DevOps (NSO303) v4.0 course continues the learning journey of the NSO Essentials for Programmers and Network Architects (NSO201) v4.0 and NSO Advanced for Python Programmers (NSO300) v4.0 courses by introducing you to the system administration and DevOps focusing on NSO; the robust bridge linking network automation and orchestration tools, examining the development, operation, and administration task functions. You will learn how to set up, configure, deploy, and maintain a Cisco Network Services Orchestrator solution, and learn best practices for using DevOps. The examples shown in this course demonstrate real-world scenarios to prepare you for deployment and management of new or existing NSO instances. The course guides you through the setup of a production ready NSO instances using system installation with access control settings, the deployment of NSO in Docker containers, and introduces modern DevOps concepts and tools such as Git and Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). You will learn how to migrate CDM devices, how to build NETCONF NEDs from the NSO CLI, how to handle NSO Alarms, and many more features that benefit you in your journey with Cisco NSO.

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

Course Content

Cisco NSO Administration
Scalability
DevOps Fundamentals
Cisco NSO Operations

Who should attend

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

Prerequisites

Before you take this course, we recommend that you have the knowledge and skills obtainable by attending the Cisco Network Service Orchestrator (NSO) Essentials for Programmers and Network Architects (v4.0) (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

Course Objectives

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