This repository contains instructions for people to learn to use Cisco MetaPod in a development environment. These are contained in the three modules listed below.

This repository also contains ansible scripts to deploy the lab workstations and infrastructure required to any Metapod environment.

Contact @vallard for any information or other details.

There is 4 hours of training material so plenty of times for breaks, lunch, and ratholing down topics of interest.

The first module goes over setting up the lab machine environment and then using various ways to communicate with the Cisco Metapod APIs including

• curl
• python clients
• native python
• ansible
• Terraform

This module introduces git and talks about branches, pull requests, etc. It also talks about Docker Registries.

This module talks about creating the application delivery pipeline. Users get hands on experience with using Jenkins with the tools discussed in the previous modules.

• See Setup Instructions

• Ensure there is an ubuntu image available for the students to boot. This version of the lab uses an image called ubuntu-14.04-server. This should be changed when the lab first starts depending on the environment. This is in section 1.4.6

• Create a jenkins account for gitlab. This can use the same key as the jenkins master to jenkins slave.

  • The key for the jenkins gitlab account should be the one that is used

• Configure Jenkins as specified in this blog post.

• Ensure the Docker agent is running on the Docker image vallard/metaclient for users.