Services as Code Fundamentals
This approach to configuration and provisioning is described as 'error-prone, time-consuming, and difficult to reproduce consistently' in the Services as Code Executive Summary.
What is manual execution of services and infrastructure configuration?
This deliverable assesses the customer’s skills, processes, and tools for CI/CD pipeline?
What is a Readiness Assessment
According to Cisco Delivery metrics, Services as Code enables this multiplier improvement in 'Faster change configuration'.
What is 5x?
This framework enables rapid on-prem solution delivery for Cisco customers, offering a unified structure for seamless integration and security compliance, and is leveraged for Cisco-hosted Services as Code pipelines.
What is Common Automation Framework (CAF)?
This type of Cisco seller benefits from Services as Code through increased commission for every Lifecycle Services (LCS) contract sold.
Who are Services Sellers?
Services as Code allows enterprises to define their network infrastructure state and treat all network elements as this, enabling versioning and management at scale.
What is Software?
During this deliverable, Pipeline configuration and execution is completed based upon the customer requirements
What is the Solution Setup?
Cisco Delivery metrics show that Services as Code helps achieve this 'Change success rate'.
What is 98% +
This API component, described as a containerized service catalog, exposes generic CRUD operations and can be consumed by tools like ServiceNow, workflow engines, or chatbots.
What is Network as Code API (NAC-API)?
In the 'Business Service' section of Services Solution Matrix, this selection must be made in addition to the architecture, technology and SSM expected total.
What is Services as Code?
Combined with automation, this set of methodologies expedites the provisioning, configuration, testing, and deployment process in Services as Code.
What are DevOps methodologies?
This executable is where Network Operator enabled to trigger pipeline execution whenever needed. In addition, the Pipeline validates and releases upgrades and changes
What is Continuous Deployment?
This customer challenge, described as making it 'difficult to track and manage configuration changes over time,' results in infrastructure state deviation and increased risk.
What is lack of version control?
This intelligent agent aims for over 85% accuracy on configuration queries and over 95% accuracy on documentation queries, assisting with tasks like generating configurations and troubleshooting pipeline errors.
What is the Cisco AI Assistant for Services as Code?
For a 'Single DC & Single IT Org' deployment in the US, the recommended net value-based price for Services as Code is this amount, representing a 35% discount.
What is $455K USD?
According to Gartner's Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking 2024, this percentage of outages are due to misconfiguration, a challenge Services as Code addresses.
What is 25%?
This is where Closed-loop automation (guidance, remediation, enrichment) occurs. Also, the Service is compliant with regulatory and golden config rules.
What is Service Assurance and Observability?
The 'manual processes' customer challenge notes that deployment and provisioning introduces this type of error into the network, which Services as Code aims to minimize.
What is Human Error?
CAF Lite, a streamlined version of the Common Automation Framework, includes essential tools such as RADkit, Ansible, OpenTofu, and this programming language.
What is Python?
This competitor offers an Infrastructure as Code On-Prem specializing in Data Center and Cloud Network Automation?
Who is Arista?
These are the three key business outcomes that Services as Code aims to deliver for customers.
What are optimize productivity, enable digital transformation, and reduce risk?
This is where there is 24x7 support access for incident and escalation management of data model and CI/CD pipeline
What is Solution Support?
A key benefit of Services as Code is gaining access to this type of support, available around the clock.
What is 24 x 7 Technical Support?
This service leverages a version control system to host and manage software development projects, enabling collaboration and tracking changes to code
What is GitHub?
Which architecture does not have support for Services as Code across the Enterprise Agreement
What is Collaboration?