#11: Hank Preston: FREE Cisco Course: David Bombal interviews Hank Preston about NetDevOps

David Bombal and Hank Preston discuss Network Automation, Network Programmability, NetDevOps and the future. What should you learn? CCNA or Python? And many other topics! Net-DevOps: David Bombal interviews Hank Preston Part 1 (Cisco #DevNet) We discussed the following in this call: 1) Hank Preston Introduction 01:02 2) How did you transition from being a traditional Network Engineer to a NetDevOps Engineer? 02:55 3) What would you recommend as the first step? 05:46 4) What should I start with? Ansible or Python? 08:19 5) Should I study CCNA or Python? CCNP or Python? CCIE or Python? 14:38 6) Hybrid Engineer, Next-Gen-Network Engineer, NetDevOps 7) What is DevOps? NetDevOps? 23:45 8) Is there a Cisco NetDevOps certification? CCNA/CCNP/CCIE type path? 29:54 9) What is DevNet? Is DevNet free? 33:30 10) DevNet Overview Demo (Free labs, free training, free resources, get support): 35:29 11) DevNet RESTCONF, NETCONF demo: https://youtu.be/o3CaEaVfCP0 Links discussed in the video: DevNet Home Page: http://cs.co/9002DQ3Tu Learning Tracks (2 suggestions): http://cs.co/9008DQ3nY http://cs.co/9000DQ3XG Coding Fundamentals Learning Module: http://cs.co/9000DQ3XQ Network Programability Basics Video Course: http://cs.co/9005DQ3kJ CCNA or Python: https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/how-do-i-get-started-learning-network-programmability Why is Cisco teaching my Python? https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/why-is-cisco-teaching-me-python LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hpreston And feel free to join and post into the DevNet Group on Linked In:  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6609150/profile  Should you Facebook or Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/ciscodevnet/  https://www.instagram.com/ciscodevnet/ David's details: YouTube: www.youtube.com/davidbombal Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: www.instagram.com/davidbombal/ LinkedinIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal/ #Python #Python_or_CCNA #Python_or_Ansible #NetDevOps