Build Your Lab for DevNet DEVCOR Study

I am using kali as my Linux Distro , Also I recommend to use Ubuntu or Debian if you do not like Kali.
https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-vm-vmware-virtualbox-image-download/

My Hypervisor-type 2 is VMware® Workstation 15 Pro.

How to install Install Visual Studio Code on Kali Linux 2020

sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl gpg software-properties-common apt-transport-https
curl -sSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add
echo “deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install code

How to Install docker
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y docker.io
sudo systemctl enable docker –now

How to Install ansible
sudo apt install ansible

How to Install puppet
sudo apt-get install puppet

How to Install git
sudo apt install git

Python 3 already installed in kali 2020.x to run it type python3
How to Install pip for python3

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

How to Install geany (Sometimes I used instead of VSC)
sudo apt-get install geany

VMS you might need like gitlab and MongoDB ,Neo4j ,PostgreSQL ,MySQL ,ELK ,NGINX Open Source:
https://bitnami.com/stacks/virtual-machine

You will need also GNS3 to practice with ansible

https://www.gns3.com/software/download

Python libraries you will work with during the course:
flask
socket
MySQLdb
os
sys
argparse
subprocess
json
unittest
requests
urllib3
netmiko
meraki
pprint
time
datetime
yaml
logging
fdm
ucsmsdk

Devnet Sandboxes to practice with webex teams , Intent API , Meraki , etc:
https://developer.cisco.com/site/sandbox/

Play with docker online:
https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

UCS Platform Emulator UCSPE 4.1
You will need UCS Manager so you can communicate with it using APIs

https://community.cisco.com/t5/unified-computing-system/ucs-platform-emulator-downloads-ucspe-4-1-2cpe1-ucspe-4-0-4epe1/ta-p/3648177

Terraform basic files structure is required , you can use the following links:

https://collabnix.github.io/terraform/

https://mikhail.io/lab/terraform/

Webex Teams and Meraki and how to ChatOps between them

You can use DevNet Sandboxs but first create account in webex Teams

Kindly note that

kubernetes and kubectl command are also required from you

For practice you can use https://www.katacoda.com/

Graylog from https://www.graylog.org/

HAProxy from http://www.haproxy.org/

Good Luck

Yasser Ramzy Auda

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