A hands-on lab course for engineers who already know Cisco IOS and want to automate it: Python, Netmiko, Jinja2 and Ansible, run against real devices in your own lab. No theory dumps, no slideware — you build the scripts that do the work.
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You can configure anything on an IOS device. The problem is that a 40-device network means forty logins, forty copies of the same VLAN change, and a backup process that lives in someone's memory. Automation is the fix — but most courses teach it with slides instead of devices, or assume you already write Python for a living.
The same ACL change pasted into twenty sessions, with a typo on device nineteen.
Nobody notices a rogue change until something breaks three weeks later.
The last known-good config is on a laptop that left with the contractor.
Eight modules, roughly 8 hours of hands-on labs. Every module ends with a working script, not a quiz.
GNS3 or EVE-NG, IOS images, SSH, a topology worth automating.
Variables, loops, functions, files and error handling — the subset network engineers actually use.
Connecting over SSH, enable mode, sending commands, handling paging and timeouts.
Inventory files, parallel sessions, timestamped backups and a unified diff per device.
One template, many devices: VLANs, interfaces, descriptions, NTP and logging.
Inventory, playbooks, modules, check mode and why idempotency matters more than speed.
Compare intended state to running state, flag differences, alert on them.
Dry-run, staged deployment, rollback plan, logging and post-change verification.
Kevin K. is a network administrator and cybersecurity lead for media and entertainment companies, and teaches CCNA automation at an online college. The labs come from production work — pfSense, Palo Alto, SonicWall, Zabbix and Wazuh in networks that cannot afford a bad change window.
Join the list and you'll get the launch price, plus the lab topology and the first two modules free before the full course is released.
No. Everything runs in GNS3 or EVE-NG with images you're licensed to use, plus a small physical switch if you have one.
No. Module 2 covers the subset you need, and every script is explained line by line.
It complements the CCNA, but it isn't a brain dump. The exam touches automation lightly; this course goes considerably further because that's what the job requires.
Early access goes out to the list first, in modules, so you can start while the rest is being finished.
Email info@wireandshield.com — questions about the labs, invoices or a team licence all go to the same place.