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title: "TIL: 8 hours of free CML on Cisco DevNet"
date: 2025-05-31
tags: ["cisco","DevNet","networking"]
categories: ["CCIE Security"]
---

![Cisco Modeling Labs](/images/cml.png)

Don't want to pay upwards of $300 dollars per year on CML licenses? Try using [Cisco's CML lab](https://devnetsandbox.cisco.com/DevNet/catalog/cml-sandbox_cml#instructions) on their free [DevNet site](https://developer.cisco.com/). I'm currently in the process of studying for the security automation exam, so this site has been *massively* useful recently. All you need to connect to the lab is the AnyConnect client; just make sure to export (or better yet, automate) your lab configurations before your time expires.