Description
Book SynopsisMatthew Baker, Brandon Beck, Doron Chosnek, Jason McGee, Sean McKeown, Bradley TerEick, and Mohit Vaswani are Solutions Architects within the Cisco Cloud Infrastructure & Software Group who are passionate about helping customers build high-value hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions. Every day, they work directly with Cisco customers and partners to combine Cisco, third-party, open-source, and public cloud technologies to achieve key business objectives.
Table of Contents Foreword xviii
Introduction xix
Chapter 1 Intersight Foundations 1
Introduction 1
Intersight Architecture 1
Licensing 21
Summary 21
References 21
Chapter 2 Security 23
Introduction 23
Connectivity 23
Claiming 24
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) 26
Audit Logs 28
Data Security 29
Security Advantages 30
Summary 31
References 31
Chapter 3 Infrastructure Operations 33
Introduction 33
Device Health and Monitoring 33
Linking Intelligence Feeds 38
Integrated Support 47
Infrastructure Configuration 50
ITSM Integration 54
UCS Director Integration 56
Summary 61
References 61
Chapter 4 Server Operations 63
Introduction 63
Supported Systems 63
Server Actions 64
Server Deployment 69
Server Policies 69
ID Pools 70
Domain Management 73
Firmware Updates 80
Summary 83
Reference 83
Chapter 5 Network Operations 85
Introduction 85
Policy-Driven Network Infrastructure 85
Summary 90
Reference 90
Chapter 6 Storage Operations 91
Introduction 91
HyperFlex 92
Deploying HyperFlex Clusters 101
Managing HX Clusters 105
Traditional Storage Operations 113
Summary 116
References 116
Chapter 7 Virtualization Operations 117
Introduction 117
Claiming a vCenter Target 118
Claiming an AWS Target 120
Contextual Visibility 121
Contextual Operations 130
Virtualization Orchestration 132
Summary 134
Reference 134
Chapter 8 Kubernetes 135
Introduction 135
Intersight Kubernetes Service 136
Benefits of IKS 138
Cluster Management 139
Intersight Workload Engine 161
Summary 165
References 166
Chapter 9 Workload Optimization 167
Introduction 167
Users and Roles 169
Targets and Configuration 170
The Supply Chain 172
Actions 174
Groups and Policies 175
Planning and Placement 180
The Public Cloud 182
Summary 185
References 185
Chapter 10 Orchestration 187
Introduction 187
Automation and Orchestration 187
Intersight Orchestration 188
Use Cases 200
Summary 203
Chapter 11 Programmability 205
Introduction 205
Client SDKs 209
Authentication and Authorization 210
Crawl, Walk, Run 213
Advanced Usage 237
Next Steps: Use Cases 244
Summary 255
References 255
Chapter 12 Infrastructure as Code 257
Introduction 257
What Is Infrastructure as Code? 258
HashiCorp Terraform 262
Intersight and Infrastructure as Code 263
IST and Intersight Cloud Orchestrator 272
Summary 273
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