Upgrading ISE in the Cloud with Automation

Cisco ISE TME Charlie Moreton brings you his next installment about automation and ISE by tackling fully automated upgrades of large ISE deployments of 8 and 16 nodes in a hybrid multi-cloud environment! Charlie's ISEDemoLab GitHub Repository used in the webinar:
github.com/ISEDemoLab/Upgrade...
00:00 Intro & Agenda
01:42 Yet Another ISE Upgrade Webinar?
03:27 Traditional, 12-node ISE Deployment Upgrade Baseline
04:45 First, 8-node Automated Baseline
05:44 Charlie's Automation Setup: Windows 11, WSL, Ubuntu, VSCode, Windows Terminal, Python, Ansible
07:14 What You Should Know: REST APIs, bash, Ansible, YAML
08:31 How Charlie Sets Up His Environment
- GitHub ReadMe: github.com/ISEDemoLab/Upgrade...
11:24 - Environment Variables & Secrets Files
11:59 - Launch VSCode
12:34 - ansible.cfg and task_output_limit
13:43 - Ansible vars (variables) Files
14:36 - Setup Playbooks
17:33 - Git Repository Change Control
20:31 Is it Worth Learning Automation? Why?
21:49 Create 8-Node Hybrid Multi-Cloud ISE Deployment in 3h45m: AWS, Azure, OCI, VMware, enable APIs, add repository, patch, promote PPAN, add SPAN, create node groups, add PSNs, add Certs, Licensing.
24:55 Review Ansible Play Recap Timing for OVA vs ISO (ISO is 30% faster!)
31:02 Where does the Time Go?
32:30 Lessons Learned from Automating Upgrade PreChecks
github.com/ISEDemoLab/Upgrade...
38:43 Review Upgrade Process for ISE 3.2.3 ⮕ 3.3 with IP Address Reuse
42:33 Where the Upgrade Time Goes for 8 Nodes (6h22m) vs 16 nodes (6h35m)!
45:18 Automated Upgrade Process with a Load Balancer
47:29 Load Balancer Configuration in Ansible Playbooks
53:26 upgrade.yaml Playbook
55:05 Notifications via Screen, Email (sSMTP, SWAKS)
1:03:52 Push Notification via ntfy.sh
1:09:48 Public Key Authentication for Password Reset
Resources
- GitHub Repository: github.com/ISEDemoLab/Upgrade...
- ISE REST APIs Introduction : • ISE REST APIs Introduc...
- Practical ISE Automation with Ansible : • Practical ISE Automati...
- Automated ISE Setup with Infrastructure as Code Tools : • Automate ISE Setup wit...
- ISE in a Hybrid Cloud Environment : • ISE in a Hybrid Cloud ...
- Cloud Load Balancing with ISE : • Cloud Load Balancers w...
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