The Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) is a key component of an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), which delivers a distributed, scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure with external end-point connectivity controlled and grouped via application centric policies. The APIC is the key architectural component that is the unified point of automation, management, monitoring and programmability for the Application Centric Infrastructure. The APIC supports the deployment, management and monitoring of any application anywhere, with a unified operations model for physical and virtual components of the infrastructure.