Heavy Networking 425: Advanced Zero Touch Provisioning For Cisco IOS-XR (Sponsored)

Summary: On today’s Heavy Networking we discuss some of the advanced features related to zero touch provisioning (ZTP) on IOS-XR in this Cisco-sponsored episode.<br> Why advanced? Because we hit ZTP fundamentals in <a href="https://packetpushers.net/podcast/show-378-cisco-zero-touch-provisioning-sponsored/">episode 378</a>.<br> In this episode we’ll review a few ZTP basics to refresh your memory, and then talk through tooling to help with golden image creation and model-driven ZTP automation.<br> We also dive into the unique challenge of using ZTP to stand up access networks with lots of devices, and review ZTP security mechanisms.<br> Our guest is Akshat Sharma, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco and a returning Packet Pushers guest.<br> Show Links:<br> <a href="https://xrdocs.io/device-lifecycle/tutorials/2016-08-26-working-with-ztp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Working with Zero Touch Provisioning IOS XR Device Lifecycle</a> – @xrdocs (Cisco)<br> <a href="https://packetpushers.net/podcast/show-378-cisco-zero-touch-provisioning-sponsored/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Show 378: Cisco Zero Touch Provisioning (Sponsored)</a> – Packet Pushers<br> <a href="https://github.com/ios-xr/gisobuild" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Golden ISO build tool</a> – GitHub<br> <a href="https://github.com/ios-xr/iosxr-ztp-python" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IOS-XR ZTP python library and samples</a> – GitHub<br> <a href="https://xrdocs.io/device-lifecycle/blogs/2017-09-21-ios-xr-ztp-learning-through-packet-captures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IOS-XR ZTP Learning through Packet captures</a> – @xrdocs (Cisco)<br>