We have been hard at work creating a better onboarding and learning experience for Cisco NSO. We are excited to announce the release of two major resources:

• Cisco NSO Reservable Sandbox
• Learn NSO The Easy Way (Learning Lab)

A multi-domain orchestration platform

Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) is a multi-domain orchestration platform used to manage the configuration lifecycle of physical and virtual network devices. Network engineers can get started right away since the NSO application CLI mimics the Cisco CLI, and allows you to configure network devices at scale with templates, customizable network services and configuration compliance audit and remediation. NSO is also a part of the Service Provider DevNet certification, so you can get practice with it here on the sandbox.

Cisco NSO reservable sandbox

This sandbox is especially exciting because it is the first Cisco NSO dedicated sandbox and it uses the new Cisco Modeling Labs to render the lab topology.

The sandbox includes:

• A variety of network devices (IOS, IOS XR, NX-OS, ASA)
• Production grade NSO Server (system install with the devices already loaded in)
• Developer Linux jump host with a bunch of developer tools and a local install NSO for development and testing
• Cisco Modeling Labs server

New Learning Lab: Learn NSO the easy way

The launch of this NSO sandbox also paves the way for a new wave of NSO learning labs and demos. The first lab to be released is