What this book covers

Chapter 1, Understanding Components and the ACI Fabric, covers the issues that ACI can overcome and the building blocks of the ACI fabric and walks you through the interface of the controller.

Chapter 2, Configuring Policies and Tenants, begins our journey of creating an environment for our tenants and applying policies to them.

Chapter 3, Hypervisor Integration (and Other Third Parties), builds on the foundation of our fabric and extends it, using VMWare and third-party devices.

Chapter 4, Routing in ACI, shows how we will unleash our ACI fabric to the rest of the network using IPv4, IPv6, and multicast.

Chapter 5, ACI Security, secures our fabric by implementing centralized role-based security.

Chapter 6, Implementing Quality of Service in ACI, walks us through prioritizing our traffic through the fabric.

Chapter 7, Network Programmability with ACI, explores the ways in which we can control our fabric through APIs.

Chapter 8, Monitoring ACI, shows us how to stay on top of any issues as they arise.

Chapter 9, Troubleshooting ACI, walks us through a bottom-up troubleshooting approach.

Chapter 10, An End-to-End Example Using the NX-OS CLI, brings everything we have covered into one complete scenario.