Free course · For engineers familiar with Cisco IOS

SONiC for Cisco Engineers

Inspect SONiC configuration and services in a virtual switch.

4
lessons
Free
with an account

Independent training by RouteSwitchU. Course publisher and trademark notice

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The course is free with a RouteSwitchU account, which takes an email address and a password.

Learning objectives

What you will be able to do

  • Explain SONiC distribution and hardware compatibility boundaries.
  • Inspect software identity and service response from the Linux shell.
  • Compare running and saved VLAN configuration.
  • Distinguish Redis liveness from expected configuration during a controlled failure.

What you leave with

Why choose this course?

  1. A clear lab boundary

    Identify the community virtual-switch image and explain which physical hardware conclusions the lab cannot establish.

  2. A configuration comparison

    Save VLAN 10, leave VLAN 20 unsaved, and compare the result after recreating the node.

  3. A service recovery exercise

    Observe a Redis failure and check for the expected VLAN field before and after restoring saved configuration.

Course content

Learning roadmap

4 lessons

4 additional lessons across 0 modules · Coming Soon

Four lessons combine reading and local practice. Completion records reading progress; local checks are not server-verified lab assessments. Use the v0.1.0-review companion kit linked in the first lesson.

  1. Why SONiC exists
  2. The switch is a Linux box
  3. Where the configuration lives
  4. The switch is a set of services
  5. InterfacesComing Soon
  6. RoutingComing Soon
  7. TroubleshootingComing Soon
  8. AutomationComing Soon

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