What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Specialization - 5 course series

We do not have any hands-on projects in this specialization curriculum. On Completion of this Specialization, you will be prepared to operate as a network automation engineer with the necessary skills needed to advance in your career. This Specialization serves as a well-rounded survey of topics and core skills that a network automation engineer should know to effectively deploy and operate a NetDevOps environment.

This course is primarily intended for network engineers, systems engineers, network architects, and managers interested in learning the fundamentals of network automation. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Articulate the role network automation and programmability plays in the context of end-to-end network management and operations. - Interpret Python scripts with fundamental programming constructs built for network automation use cases. To be successful in this course, you should be proficient in fundamental network routing & switching technologies, understand the basics of Python programming (3-6 mos exp.), and have some familiarity with Linux.

This course is primarily intended for network engineers, systems engineers, network architects, and managers interested in learning the fundamentals of network automation and network APIs. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Describe the need for data encoding formats and study various data encoding formats. - Interpret and construct HTTP-Based APIs calls to network devices. - Construct and interpret Python scripts using the Python requests module to automate devices that have HTTP-based APIs. To be successful in this course, you should be proficient in fundamental network routing & switching technologies, understand the basics of Python programming (3-6 mos exp.) and have some familiarity with Linux.

This course is primarily intended for network engineers, systems engineers, network architects, and managers interested in learning the fundamentals of network automation and Ansible. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Construct Ansible playbooks to configure network devices and retrieve operational state data from network devices. - Build Jinja2 templates and YAML data structures to generate desired state configurations. Proficiency in fundamental network routing & switching technologies, basics of Python programming (3-6 mos exp.), and basic Linux knowledge.

This course is primarily intended for network engineers, systems engineers, network architects, and managers interested in learning the fundamentals of network automation and NetDevOps. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Define and differentiate between Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies - Describe how DevOps principles, tools, and pipelines can be applied to network operations - Explain the role of network automation development environments and associated technologies such as Python virtual environments, Vagrant, and Docker To be successful in this course, you should be proficient in fundamental network routing & switching technologies, understand the basics of Python programming (3-6 mos exp.) and have some familiarity with Linux.

By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Explain the role YANG plays within a network automation context. - Describe the tools that exist to simplify working with YANG models. - Describe the functionality of RESTCONF and NETCONF and the differences between them. Proficiency in fundamental network routing & switching technologies, basics of Python programming (3-6 mos exp.), and basic Linux knowledge.

Using APIs for Network Automation

Ansible for Network Automation

DevOps for Network Automation (NetDevOps)

Introducing Model-Driven Programmability