Cisco Modeling Labs Free is now available

Cisco Modeling Labs Free is now available

Cisco Modeling Labs Version 2.8 is out with several exciting updates like smart annotations and custom MAC addresses. But one of the most exciting features is a limited free version of Cisco Modeling Labs for single users. This means that you can download the free version of CML without a license, and you can use up to five nodes at one time. (A node can be a virtual router, switch, firewall, or one of the…

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Deck the Halls with Cisco U. Learning Deals

Deck the Halls with Cisco U. Learning Deals

Listen up, #CiscoCert community. The happiest of seasons begins with the start of the shopping season! We know a lot of you wait for our Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers on Cisco Learning, and this year will not disappoint. Get ready for your chance to fill your digital stocking with gifts that will take you places.  No matter how you celebrate the holidays, you’ll want to celebrate this: Cisco U. Learning Deals are on…

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Deck the Halls with Cisco U. Learning Deals

Deck the Halls with Cisco U. Learning Deals

Listen up, #CiscoCert community. The happiest of seasons begins with the start of the shopping season! We know a lot of you wait for our Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers on Cisco Learning, and this year will not disappoint. Get ready for your chance to fill your digital stocking with gifts that will take you places.  No matter how you celebrate the holidays, you’ll want to celebrate this: Cisco U. Learning Deals are on…

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Network Hacking Course Pairs with Cisco Modeling Labs

Network Hacking Course Pairs with Cisco Modeling Labs

If you’ve ever been to Cisco Live and seen the booth with a display for you to pick locks, then you know about the Cisco Advanced Security Initiatives Group (ASIG). We are chartered with security testing and ethical hacking for all Cisco products and services, whether in the cloud or on-premises. Anything Cisco sells, we have a go at it and try to break it—finding vulnerabilities as early as possible—before it’s deployed on the internet…

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How to Use Ansible with CML

How to Use Ansible with CML

How can Ansible help people building simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML)? Similar to Terraform, Ansible is a common, open-source automation tool often used in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) DevOps methodologies. They are both a type of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Infrastructure as Data that allow you to render your infrastructure as text files and control it using tools such as Git. The advantage is reproducibility, consistency, speed, and the knowledge that, when you…

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