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Cisco CML MCP Setup
A week ago, I watched an interview with David Bombal and Kareem Iskander “Claude AI for CCNA: How to Automate Your Studies” (https://lnkd.in/gBKjwxiW), and I was inspired to set up my own Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) environment to enhance my Cisco networking studies. So, I spent a couple of evenings setting up the AI automation…
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Implementing Monitoring in Azure using Azure Monitor
Implementing Monitoring in Azure Intro In this post, I’ll walk through my experience with implementing monitoring in Azure using Azure Monitor, including creating alerts, configuring Action Groups, and querying logs to monitor Azure resources. Lab Overview Task 1: Deploy infrastructure using a template Task 2: Creating an alert Task 3: Configure Action Group Notifications Task…
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Create a Container Web Server with an ARM Template
Project Scenario As a Cloud Administrator, I’m going to deploy a legacy containerized web app to an Azure VM. Since I don’t want to be doing things manually more that once, I’m then going to convert the solution into an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template. I’ll create a Key Vault to improve security, and add…
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AWS – Create an Organization, enable IAM Identity Center, and federate IAM Identity Center with Microsoft Entra ID as an external Identity Source
In this project, I created an Organization to manage the hierarchy of the company’s AWS accounts, then federated AWS IAM Identity Center with Microsoft Entra ID. An added benefit of creating an Organization is that IAM Identity Center can then be enabled at the Organization level, which gives one the ability to manage access to…
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Access CML free using Cisco DevNet Sandbox
If you need to run a lab larger than 5 devices, so you can’t run it in the free version of CML that you maybe have running in a VM, you can instead use a free Cisco DevNet CML Sandbox. Click the link below to visit the site. https://developer.cisco.com/site/sandbox Select Launch Sandbox Select Launch on…
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Installing Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) on Proxmox
Installing the free version of CML on a VM in Proxmox I’ve recently begun studying for the CCNA exam. I attended the free Cisco “CCNA Prep” program, in which they use Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) which simulates Cisco devices and their command-line interfaces. This is an improvement over the older Packet Tracer which only emulates…
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HumanGov: Deploying a Reusable SaaS Multi-Tenant AWS Infrastructure using Terraform Modules
In this project based on a real-world scenario, I designed and deployed a reusable, multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure on AWS using Terraform modules. The infrastructure was based on AWS services such as EC2 instances, DynamoDB databases, and S3 buckets. To ensure the secure storage of Terraform configuration files, I used AWS CodeCommit to ensure that the…
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HumanGov: Implementing Git Repositories for Application and Infrastructure Code using AWS Code Commit + Cloud9 to Perform the Proof of Concept (POC) Process of Committing, Pushing, and Reverting Code Changes
In this project based on a real-world scenario, I implemented Git repositories for application- and infrastructure-code using AWS CodeCommit and AWS Cloud9. I got hands-on experience with the Proof of Concept (PoC) process of committing, pushing, and reverting code changes. My mission was to set up a remote Git repository using AWS CodeCommit for “HumanGov,”…
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Automating the implementation of an E-Commerce System on AWS using Terraform and Ansible
In another project based in a real-world scenario, I worked as Cloud Engineer utilizing DevOps methodologies, where I created and implemented an e-Commerce MVP (Minimum Viable Product) on AWS in under 2 hours by employing automation using Terraform and Ansible (Infrastructure as Code — IaC). I provisioned the infrastructure in an automated fashion using Terraform…
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Composing an Executive Presentation on Infrastructure costs for a project to migrate On-Premises SAP to AWS
In this project based on a real-world scenario, I acted as a Cloud Architect and created an executive presentation on the infrastructure costs for a project to migrate an SAP implementation from On-Premises to AWS. SAP workloads are currently running in a corporate Data Center with the implementation divided into Production, Stage, and Development/Test (DevTest)…