Cisco Intersight UCS and HyperFlex Programmability and Orchestration

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

- 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

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall 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
  

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

LAB OUTLINE:

Lab 1: Examining the Intersight Object Model and API tools

Lab 2: Interacting with the Intersight REST API using Postman

Lab 3: Using Python to manage operations with the Intersight  REST API

Lab 4: Managing and automating Intersight with Ansible

Lab 5: Deploying UCS infrastructure with Intersight and Terraform

The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

Familiarity with Cisco UCS and HyperFlex