Containers in Cisco IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS (PDF)

A comprehensiveguide to learning container and application hosting capabilities in Ciscoplatforms, and implementing them to achieve higher efficiency in networkdeployments and operations

Ciscoarchitectures offer comprehensive compute virtualization capabilities toaccommodate both native and third-party container hosting, so you cancontainerize and instantiate any application or network service and gainunprecedented value from your networks.

Directfrom Cisco, this is the complete guide to deploying and operatingcontainerized application and networkservices on Cisco platforms. First, the authors review essential virtualizationand containerization concepts for all network professionals and introduceleading orchestration tools. Next, they take a deep dive into containernetworking, introducing Cisco architectural support for containerinfrastructures. You'll find modular coverage of configuration, activation,orchestration, operations, and application hosting for each key Cisco softwareplatform: IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS.

Theauthors explore diverse orchestration tools, including LXC, Docker, andKubernetes, and cover both Cisco and open-source tools for building and testingapplications. They conclude with multiple use cases that show howcontainerization can improve agility and efficiency in a wide range of networkenvironments.

• Review themotivation, drivers, and concepts of computing virtualization
• Learn howCisco platforms are achieving infrastructure virtualization
• Explore theCisco reference model for developing cloud-native services and moving tocloud-native network functions
• MasterCisco container networking fundamentals, supported modes, and configuration
• Enable,install, activate, and orchestrate containerized applications in Cisco IOS-XE,IOS-XR, and NX-OS
• Comparetools and methods for developing, testing, hosting, and orchestratingcontainerized applications
• Discoverreal-world use cases for Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 operations, with practicaldeployment examples
• Previewemerging trends in network containerization