Meraki API and Automation
Hello everyone and fellow Meraki rockstars,
I’m currently working for a company that is in the process of migrating and upgrading multiple properties to a full Cisco Meraki infrastructure. Over the next several months, we will be completing approximately seven full property deployments, so I’m looking for advice, best practices, automation ideas, APIs, templates, or any general recommendations from those who have experience managing large-scale Meraki rollouts.
Our current deployment stack includes:
Meraki MX75 firewalls
Meraki MS130 switches
One of the biggest goals for me is finding ways to streamline and standardize deployments as much as possible rather than manually configuring every individual property from scratch. I’m especially interested in:
Network templates and configuration cloning
API automation opportunities
Best practices for VLAN deployment and standardization
Firmware management strategies
Staging/preconfiguration workflows
Monitoring and alerting recommendations
Documentation practices
Common mistakes or “gotchas” during multi-site deployments
Any tools/scripts that helped simplify deployments at scale
Coming from environments where a lot of infrastructure work has historically been very manual, I’m trying to build a cleaner and more scalable deployment process moving forward.
I’d greatly appreciate any insight, recommendations, or lessons learned from anyone who has handled similar multi-property Meraki deployments. Thanks in advance.