Course Overview
INTPRO is a 2-day course is for users that want to begin using programmability with Cisco Intersight to enhance the management and operation of their Cisco UCS and HyperFlex infrastructure. This training will demonstrate how programmability on Cisco compute platforms has evolved and how Cisco Intersight always-on cloud-based management can simplify UCS infrastructure management on a global scale by leveraging the Intersight Open API and developer tools.
Course Objectives
Describe the Intersight REST API, Object Model, and Intersight Managed Objects
Demonstrate how to use Intersight developer tools
Understand how to use Postman to interact with the Intersight API
Use Python to manage UCS/HX operations with the Intersight API
Demonstrate how to use Ansible to automate deployments with Intersight
Deploy UCS/HX infrastructure using Terraform
Who Should Attend?
People interested in applying programmability to automate and manage their UCS or HyperFlex infrastructure with Cisco Intersight
Systems administrators and engineers
Technical solutions architects
Systems integrators
Channel partners
Value-added resellers
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Agenda
1 - Examining the Intersight Object Model and API tools
- Understanding Managed Objects in Intersight
- Using the REST API Browser to test resources and methods and run results
- Intersight Developer tools
2 - Interacting with the Intersight REST API using Postman
- Using the Postman collection repo
- Configuring environment variables
- Intersight Collection Postman How-To
- Understanding request headers
- Why use a pre-request script?
- Request examples for managing UCS and HX in Intersight
3 - Using Python to manage operations with the Intersight REST API
- Using the Intersight Python SDK
- How to Generate API Keys and Secrets
- looking at the contents of the rest-API repository
- Leveraging Python examples with Intersight
- Running and validating python requests on Intersight
4 - Managing and automating Intersight with Ansible
- Installing Ansible and the UCS Python SDK
- Installing the UCS and UCSM Ansible Collections
- Configure and run UCS Ansible Playbooks
- Install the Intersight Ansible Collection
- Configure and run Intersight Ansible Playbooks
- Intersight Automated Hyperflex Deployment with Ansible How-To
5 - Deploying UCS infrastructure with Intersight and Terraform
- Terraform Workflow Overview
- How to Install GO and Terraform
- Intersight Terraform Provider requirements and config
- Terraform configuration files
- How to Initialize Terraform
- Create and configure Terraform Resources
- Running Terraform Apply to configure UCS infrastructure in Intersight