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Complete guide to deploying and operating containerised application and network services on Cisco platformsCisco architectures offer comprehensive compute virtualisation capabilities to accommodate both native and third-party container hosting, so you can containerise and instantiate any application or network service and gain unprecedented value from your networks. Direct from Cisco, this is the complete guide to deploying and operating containerised application and network services on Cisco platforms. First, the authors review essential virtualisation and containerisation concepts for all network professionals and introduce leading orchestration tools. Next, they take a deep dive into container networking, introducing Cisco architectural support for container infrastructures. You'll find modular coverage of configuration, activation, orchestration, operations, and application hosting for each key Cisco software platform: IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS. The authors explore diverse orchestration tools, including LXC, Docker, and Kubernetes, and cover both Cisco and open-source tools for building and testing applications. They conclude with multiple use cases that show how containerisation can improve agility and efficiency in a wide range of network environments. Review the motivation, drivers, and concepts of computing virtualisation Learn how Cisco platforms are achieving infrastructure virtualisation Explore the Cisco reference model for developing cloud-native services and moving to cloud-native network functions Master Cisco container networking fundamentals, supported modes, and configuration Enable, install, activate, and orchestrate containerised applications in Cisco IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS Compare tools and methods for developing, testing, hosting, and orchestrating containerised applications Discover real-world use cases for Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 operations, with practical deployment examples Preview merging trends in network containerisation

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Yogesh Ramdoss (CCIE No. 16183) is a principal engineer with the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) organisation focusing on datacenter technologies such as Nexus switching platforms (standalone as well as VXLAN fabric), application-centric infrastructure (ACI), and hyper-converged infrastructure HyperFlex. Associated with Cisco since 2003, Yogesh is a distinguished speaker at Cisco Live, where he shares his knowledge and educates customers and partners on data center platforms and technologies, telemetry, analytics, network programmability, and various troubleshooting and packet capturing tools. He is a machine and behaviour learning coinventor. Nagendra Kumar Nainar (CCIE No. 20987, CCDE No. 20190014) is a principal engineer with the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) organisation (formerly TAC), focusing on enterprise networking. He is the coinventor of more than 100 patent applications on various cutting-edge technologies and the coarchitect for various recent technologies. He has coauthored multiple Internet RFCs and IEEE papers. Serving as Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for various IEEE and other international conferences, he is an active speaker in various industry forums.

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