Cisco ISE TME Charlie Moreton brings you his next installment about automation and ISE by tackling fully automated upgrades of large ISE deployments of 8 and 16 nodes in a hybrid multi-cloud environment! Charlie's ISEDemoLab GitHub Repository used in the webinar:
github.com/ISEDemoLab/Upgrade...
00:00 Intro & Agenda
01:42 Yet Another ISE Upgrade Webinar?
03:27 Traditional, 12-node ISE Deployment Upgrade Baseline
04:45 First, 8-node Automated Baseline
05:44 Charlie's Automation Setup: Windows 11, WSL, Ubuntu, VSCode, Windows Terminal, Python, Ansible
07:14 What You Should Know: REST APIs, bash, Ansible, YAML
08:31 How Charlie Sets Up His Environment
- GitHub ReadMe: github.com/ISEDemoLab/Upgrade...
11:24 - Environment Variables & Secrets Files
11:59 - Launch VSCode
12:34 - ansible.cfg and task_output_limit
13:43 - Ansible vars (variables) Files
14:36 - Setup Playbooks
17:33 - Git Repository Change Control
20:31 Is it Worth Learning Automation? Why?
21:49 Create 8-Node Hybrid Multi-Cloud ISE Deployment in 3h45m: AWS, Azure, OCI, VMware, enable APIs, add repository, patch, promote PPAN, add SPAN, create node groups, add PSNs, add Certs, Licensing.
24:55 Review Ansible Play Recap Timing for OVA vs ISO (ISO is 30% faster!)
31:02 Where does the Time Go?
32:30 Lessons Learned from Automating Upgrade PreChecks
github.com/ISEDemoLab/Upgrade...
38:43 Review Upgrade Process for ISE 3.2.3 ⮕ 3.3 with IP Address Reuse
42:33 Where the Upgrade Time Goes for 8 Nodes (6h22m) vs 16 nodes (6h35m)!
45:18 Automated Upgrade Process with a Load Balancer
47:29 Load Balancer Configuration in Ansible Playbooks
53:26 upgrade.yaml Playbook
55:05 Notifications via Screen, Email (sSMTP, SWAKS)
1:03:52 Push Notification via ntfy.sh
1:09:48 Public Key Authentication for Password Reset
Resources
- GitHub Repository: github.com/ISEDemoLab/Upgrade...
- ISE REST APIs Introduction : • ISE REST APIs Introduc...
- Practical ISE Automation with Ansible : • Practical ISE Automati...
- Automated ISE Setup with Infrastructure as Code Tools : • Automate ISE Setup wit...
- ISE in a Hybrid Cloud Environment : • ISE in a Hybrid Cloud ...
- Cloud Load Balancing with ISE : • Cloud Load Balancers w...
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16 июл 2024
