Cloud migration in 8 minutes: security rules from on-premise Cisco ACI to Oracle Cloud OCI with Terraform

Introduction A couple of months ago I was tasked to accelerate a cloud migration from the networking perspective. Context: Cisco ACI already deployed, with security rules grouped by functions and already agreed with the security team Migration to Oracle Cloud (aka OCI) already started and growing But, since Cisco ACI and Oracle OCI are configured in a different way, now there were two growing and divergent schemas, where manual deployment on OCI would take several months and a lot of conflicts, between operations and delivery. ...

September 25, 2020 · 5 min · 983 words · Adrian Giacometti

How Cisco ACI can easily send real-time notifications straight to your hands

Even if you don’t fully understand what is an API, it is really easy to leverage their power to have some useful information directly sent to a collaboration platform and receive it on your mobile or PC in real-time. All the tools in use are Free: Python, Slack, and WebEx Teams. In this post, I will show you how to send Cisco ACI faults and events to messages straight to Slack and WebEx Teams. ...

June 11, 2020 · 3 min · 459 words · Adrian Giacometti