David Bombal and Hank Preston discuss Network Automation, Network Programmability, NetDevOps and the future. What should you learn? CCNA or Python? And many other topics!

Net-DevOps: David Bombal interviews Hank Preston Part 1 (Cisco #DevNet)

We discussed the following in this call:

1) Hank Preston Introduction 01:02

2) How did you transition from being a traditional Network Engineer to a NetDevOps Engineer? 02:55

3) What would you recommend as the first step? 05:46

4) What should I start with? Ansible or Python? 08:19

5) Should I study CCNA or Python? CCNP or Python? CCIE or Python? 14:38

6) Hybrid Engineer, Next-Gen-Network Engineer, NetDevOps

7) What is DevOps? NetDevOps? 23:45

8) Is there a Cisco NetDevOps certification? CCNA/CCNP/CCIE type path? 29:54

9) What is DevNet? Is DevNet free? 33:30

10) DevNet Overview Demo (Free labs, free training, free resources, get support): 35:29

11) DevNet RESTCONF, NETCONF demo: https://youtu.be/o3CaEaVfCP0

Links discussed in the video:

DevNet Home Page:

http://cs.co/9002DQ3Tu

Learning Tracks (2 suggestions):

http://cs.co/9008DQ3nY

http://cs.co/9000DQ3XG

Coding Fundamentals Learning Module:

http://cs.co/9000DQ3XQ

Network Programability Basics Video Course:

http://cs.co/9005DQ3kJ

CCNA or Python:

https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/how-do-i-get-started-learning-network-programmability

Why is Cisco teaching my Python?

https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/why-is-cisco-teaching-me-python

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hpreston

And feel free to join and post into the DevNet Group on Linked In:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6609150/profile

Should you Facebook or Instagram:

https://www.facebook.com/ciscodevnet/

https://www.instagram.com/ciscodevnet/

David's details:

YouTube: www.youtube.com/davidbombal

Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal

Instagram: www.instagram.com/davidbombal/

LinkedinIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal/

#Python #Python_or_CCNA #Python_or_Ansible #NetDevOps