NPUG is a Cisco initiative started by Nick Matthews who is passionate about discussing and sharing ideas with others about the new skillsets required for programming networks.
NPUG topics include technology, Linux, Python, SDN, Development, OpenStack, DevOps and more. It's completely free to be involved with NPUG (with meetings happening both physically and virtually) and it's for Users, Partners, Vendors, Developers, Engineers, System Admins and Architects.
As Nick says "There's something to be learned by everyone … the next generation network engineer doesn't need to be a programmer, and the next wave of developers doesn't need to be network engineers, but having some knowledge or skills from both sides is extremely valuable"
We've made available the recent 90 minute 'Containers + Docker for Network Engineers' WebEx training session NPUG held with DevOps guru John Willis (from Docker, and also co-author of the "DevOps Cookbook" and the upcoming "Network Operations" published by O"Reilly). The video is available on the DevNet site to give you're a flavor of the NPUG output.
NPUG will soon be hosting a similar session all about DevOps – not to be missed!
Take a look at the NPUG wiki and get involved
View the Containers + Docker for Network Engineers training session from John Willis
