Traditional datacentre setups do lack features to meet the requirements as being application centric, supporting automated deployment and a single control instance to ensure a comprehensive view on the given assets.
Based on VxLAN – a protocol standard to encapsulate all network traffic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Extensible_LAN
within a given Cisco ACI environment.
Cisco is delivering a wealth of documents – we’re going to maintain a list of links pointing to those.
There are as well lots of other online portals available, as an example we’d like to mention
https://unofficialaciguide.com/
Another nice site – https://www.twistedit.com/ – Jason is a very skilled guy, and has published quite a lot of trainings videos on youtube, I’ll put in a reference per topic in this blog.