Course Overview
This five-day, intermediate-level course teaches the basics of using the Juniper Apstra™ software to manage data center networks. This course offers attendees the knowledge to operate and manage Juniper Apstra. It also provides a comprehensive overview of modern data center design and intent-based networking concepts.
The course covers the Juniper Apstra architecture and its data center reference architecture including the designing, building, deploying, and automation of both a collapsed IP fabric and a three-stage IP fabric using a Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) overlay. The course also covers the navigation of the Juniper Apstra UI including creating resources, designs, templates, and instantiating blueprints (a running network). After teaching the students to use Juniper Apstra to build a running data center, the course reviews the operational tools for managing a system with Juniper Apstra including performing basic troubleshooting, performing global and blueprint UI walkthroughs, enabling role-based access control, setting drain mode, adding and removing nodes from a fabric, rolling back an entire network (Time Voyager), creating on-box and off-box agents, configuring security policies, creating connectivity templates, querying the graph database, and performing intent-based analytics (IBA).
Students will learn to configure and monitor Juniper Apstra's IP network through demos and hands-on work. This course is based on Juniper Apstra Release 5.0.
Who should attend
- Networking architects and operators, System Engineers, and DevOps and IT professionals
- People who set up, maintain, and troubleshoot big and small data centers using different vendor products
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of networking and data center designs
- Understanding of Clos IP fabric
- Overlay and underlay routing designs
- Basic automation design and workflows
- Understanding of network device configuration through the CLI
- Knowledge of BGP
- Completion of the Introduction to Juniper Data Center Networking (IJDC) course
Course Objectives
- Describe what is meant by intent-based networking.
- Describe the Juniper Apstra architecture.
- Navigate the global Apstra UI.
- Describe the basic device abstractions used by Juniper Apstra.
- Create and use system agents to manage devices.
- Describe an IP fabric architecture.
- Explain VXLAN functions and operations.
- Describe Ethernet VPN (EVPN) routing and bridging.
- Describe the Juniper Apstra reference designs.
- Create resources.
- Create tags.
- Configure a rack type.
- Configure templates.
- Build and deploy a blueprint.
- Navigate the blueprint UI.
- Perform basic fabric device operations and troubleshooting.
- Configure role-based access control.
- Configure and apply property sets and configlets.
- Configure connectivity templates.
- Describe the multitenancy capabilities of Juniper Apstra.
- Add a spine and a rack to an existing blueprint.
- Add a generic system and links to an existing blueprint.
- Use the Graph Explorer to traverse the graph datastore.
- Describe the function of an IBA probe.
- Create an IBA probe.
- Describe the purpose of root cause identification.
- Create and manage security policies.
- Create a logical device.
- Create an interface map.
- Configure logging to a remote syslog server.
- Manage the Juniper Apstra Server.
- Describe how Juniper Apstra can enable a Data Center Interconnect (DCI).
- Create a device profile.
- Describe how you can automate the Juniper Apstra server.
- Implement Juniper Apstra Cloud Services.
- Describe Juniper Apstra Cloud Services features.
Course Content
- Intent-Based Networking
- Juniper Apstra—Overview
- Juniper Apstra UI Walkthrough
- Logical Devices, Device Profiles, and Interface Maps
- Device Management
- IP Fabric Architecture
- VXLAN Overview
- EVPN Protocol
- Apstra Reference Designs
- Resources
- Tags
- Design—Racks
- Design—Templates
- Building and Deploying a Blueprint
- Navigating the Blueprint UI
- Basic Blueprint Operations
- Role-Based Access Control
- Property Sets and Configlets
- Connectivity Templates
- Virtual Networks
- Post-Deployment—Adding a Spine and a Rack
- Post-Deployment—Managing Links and Generic Systems
- Graph Explorer
- Intent-Based Analytics—Overview
- Creating an IBA Probe
- Root Cause Identification
- Security Policies
- Creating Logical Devices
- Creating Interface Maps
- Syslo
- Managing the Apstra Server
- Data Center Interconnect
Self-Study Modules
- Creating Device Profiles
- Introduction to the REST API and Terraform
- Juniper Apstra Cloud Services—Overview
- Implementing Juniper Apstra Cloud Services
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