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I noticed once again in the exam they talk about differences between Puppet Chef and sensible.

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Now I have discussed this in the exam overview.

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I'll explain it a big difference between answerable puppet and chef is answerable is Agent Lewis.

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You don't have to run an agent on the road.

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So if you've got a Cisco router if you want to use puppet or chef you have to run an agent which is

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basically a piece of software that can talk to one of their servers.

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So that's a huge disadvantage.

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If you've got an old 37 50 switch in your lab at home or you want to use genius 3 as an example.

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All you've got is a stage or talent.

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But let's just assume SSA.

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You don't want to run an agent or have to install an agent and have to run Linux commands on the rod

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or switch just to be able to talk to it to configure it.

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That's a disadvantage of both puppet and chef.

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If you've got a server or you come from a server environment it's very easy to install a piece of software

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on the server.

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So if you've got a Linux server or you've got a Windows server you can just install a piece of software

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on that server and that's fine.

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So install an agent and then manage the server using this connection from the server from the management

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station to the agent.

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That's easy to do but you can't easily do that with Cisco.

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IOW devices in a in classic IOW the monolithic old IOW you couldn't just install applications on a rod

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or a switch.

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Now since you have opened that up quite a lot now with XY so with the newest versions of Iowa's you

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can drop down into Linux shell and I'll show you that in this course it's not required once again for

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the CCMA exam but you can actually drop down into Linux and that's how you install an agent for puppet

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as an example you have to go into Linux shell dropped on into the Linux Shell on Your rod or switch

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to install the agent.

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So basically you're running Linux on your on your router now you can't do that very easily on old Iris

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systems.

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So that's the advantage of sensible you're just using SSA basically to configure the device.

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Now I have a love hate relationship with sensible.

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I don't like sensible because every time they update sensible it breaks all my scripts accredited sensible

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course and as soon as I release that sensible updated and it broke all my answerable scripts and the

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students weren't very happy.

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So I personally prefer Python.

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Why.

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Because python is easier to control.

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There was a big change from Python two point seven to Python 3.

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Python 3 is the de facto.

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Now you must use Python 3 but I can control what happens.

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Big Idea in programming is you as the developer control what goes on.

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There is no external application that breaks everything and that's what I hate about sensible.

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So personally I would study Python some guys would say you learn animal animals kind of like a halfway

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step to Python so traditional network engineer go to animal and go to python.

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Now a few years ago a lot of guys would say Python as is is bad because you can't scale very easily

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and still has a lot of scalability stuff built into it.

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And that was true as an example if you wanted to configure a hundred switches using Python.

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It was a lot more difficult because Python would Alicia did some clever coding open one session and

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go to the next device then to the next device.

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So everything was done sequentially it was very very slow.

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So you'd have to write code to do everything in parallel to speed up the scripts.

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Basically that was an advantage of sensible that kind of stuff.

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Cleverness was built into encircle from the beginning but that's no longer true.

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Today we've got frameworks such as Narnia.

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We've got pi 80 s also called Jeannie from Cisco.

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Cisco has made it a lot easier with pi.

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Yes.

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So pi 80 s and Jeannie really make things a lot easier if you configuring devices it also gives you

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scalability.

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It hides some of the complexity makes your python scripts a lot simpler and so does Narnia.

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So I would say that the advantage of using sensible has diminished compared to to Python.

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A lot of new people to the programming world would struggle with Python so if Europe pure network person

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you might struggle to get into python but let me tell you rather bite the bullet as they say do it as

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soon as you can get over the hurdle of learning python because once you do it opens up a whole new world

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to you rather than just being a use of an application that someone else has written you can control

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what goes on.

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So my recommendation is Learn Python once again as quickly as you can for the real world but for the

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CCMA exam you don't need to learn python so you don't have to debug scripts that is covered in the definite

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associate.

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Okay so I've been talking quite a bit now but I wanted to give you the sort of summary of this section

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some of the stuff that I haven't spoken about is overlays and underlies.

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So I did talk about this in my exam overview but I'll explain it once again.

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Here let me give me feedback.

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I mean do you like me just talking to you as hopefully it's as if you're sitting next to me and we're

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just having a conversation.