Cloud Dev Center
Explore and learn the APIs, tools, and capabilities for building solutions in private, public, and hybrid clouds.
Getting started
  • eBook: Journey to Cloud Native
  • Tutorials: Cloud native applications
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  • Application performance monitoring
    Container networking
    Protecting my network
  • Running a private cloud
    Managing a hybrid cloud
Getting Started
Just getting started with cloud native applications? Here you’ll find resources whether you are new to cloud or new to development.
  • eBook: Journey to Cloud Native
    Are you curious about the principles and techniques of cloud native development? Check out this detailed eBook.
    • Learn best practices from industry veterans
    • Learn about containers and microservices
    • Learn about how this applies to business and open source
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  • Tutorials: Cloud native applications
    Want to get hands-on with cloud native tools like Docker and Kubernetes? This tutorial will give you hands on experience with cloud native tools. This learning module will help you with:
    • Containers
    • Docker
    • Microservices
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Application Performance Monitoring
Gain real-time visibility into how applications are working in test, pre-production and production environments to ensure that your code delivers the performance and functionality that your business expects.
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Container Networking
Managing Container networking at scale is tricky; especially with multi tenant environments where application policy and security are key. Contiv is a 100% opensource network fabric, designed by Cisco and certified by Docker to get the job done.
  • Contiv
    Drop in support with Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift and more. Role based access to management interfaces and integrations with your existing VM, Bare Metal and Cloud or Datacenter networks. Find out more below.
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  • More resources
    With a growing ecosystem, the Contiv community is here to solve your container networking problems! Reach out to the Contiv Slack room to join the conversation; or dive right into the code below.
Protecting my network
As more workloads move into public and private clouds, new security practices are required to mitigate new paths. Learn about some of Cisco's cloud security platforms' developer tools.
Running a private cloud
Many organizations want to employ a private cloud strategy. This helps internal teams drive the agility and speed that they experience with a public cloud. Learn about the capabilities that can help developers build software faster in a private cloud context.
  • OpenStack
    OpenStack is a large open source software project that provides a platform for creating, operating, and consuming public and private clouds. OpenStack abstracts key elements of a datacenter - compute, storage, and networking resources, into pools of resource accessible by a unified API.
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  • Metacloud
    An OpenStack private cloud, managed by Cisco engineers. Get the speed, expandability, and agility of a public cloud with the security of a private cloud.
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Managing a hybrid cloud
While many organizations are evaluating public cloud, in most cases hybrid scenarios will be necessary. To accomplish this, developers need to understand how to fulfill their organizations needs through automation of infrastructure.
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