Crosswork Automation Hub Blogs

AI Assisted Network Automation Development

AI Assisted Network Automation Development I am thrilled about the upcoming Cisco Automation developer days where we willdelve into the intricacies of network automation and explore the entire develop...

Tackling Brownfield Challenges with NSO & Crosswork Workflow Manager

Developer Track Theme: Tackling Brownfield Challenges with NSO & Crosswork Workflow Manager  As we gear up for this year’s Automation Developer Days, we’re excited to announce that one of the three co...

Mastering Deployment Strategies: Secure, Scalable, and Automated

At Developer Days, we’re tackling Deployment Strategies—ensuring network automation is secure, scalable, and governed. Learn how NSO & Crosswork Workflow Manager (CWM) enable compliant, observable, an...

Digital Infrastructure for a Digital Society

The shift towards a digital economy is driving demand for robust digital infrastructure. Cisco emphasizes the importance of network simplification, automation, and data intelligence to support this tr...

Enabling 2FA for NSO CLI-over-SSH with DUO and Package Authentication

Integrating Cisco DUO with NSO has never been easier!  In this article, we will introduce how to enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for NSO CLI access over SSH using Package Challenges as we conti...

NSO 6.4 (long-lived release) is out!

The Cisco Crosswork NSO development team are immensely proud of our latest release – NSO 6.4 (long-lived release). We would like to share the highlights by introducing what is new and exciting with th...

Data Visualization and Machine Learning Predictive Service with Splunk

This article will focus on data processing, visualization, and machine learning prediction with Splunk as an external data processing engine. At the same time, how one can use the prediction data and ...

Provision NSO Observability with Splunk

This article will focus on how to enable observability and start data collection with Observability Exporter and CollectD from NSO. At the same time, how one can perform feature-based performance meas...

Best Practices in Migrating from NID to Official Containerized NSO

This guide will explain the recomended migration method from the open source container NID (NSO in Docker) to the Cisco Containerized NSO instance. We hope the NID Migration Guide will provide the fir...

Integrate Cisco DUO with NSO SSO

Cisco DUO is one of the world's most trusted identity security tools. For this tutorial, we will introduce the method to build a NSO SSO DUO Integration via “cisco-nso-saml2-auth” with code example. 

Deploy LSA with Containerized NSO

Introduction Layered Service Architecture (LSA) is a design approach for massively large and scalable NSO applications. By using LSA with Containerized NSO, offers following benefits: Containerized NS...

AI-Assisted Code Generation for Network Automation with CWM and NSO

Here comes a new batch of recordings from Developer Days!

Exciting News for Automation Enthusiasts! Get ready for the second batch of edited videos from Automation Developer Days in Stockholm! We've already released individual sessions from day one on our...

Thank You All for Attending Automation Developer Days!

Thank you all for attending Developer Days, both in-person in Stockholm and virtually via YouTube. We had three fantastic days filled with a great mix of presentations, hands-on labs and workshops, an...

Crosswork Workflow Manager (CWM) now on DevNet!

Exciting news just in time for our "Automation Developer Days" in Stockholm, May 21-23, 2024! We're launching the Crosswork Workflow Manager (CWM) on DevNet, complete with documentation and labs to ge...