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Mastering Python Networking

Mastering Python Networking

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking

Mastering Python Networking

4.9 (10)
By: Eric Chou

Overview of this book

Networks in your infrastructure set the foundation for how your application can be deployed, maintained, and serviced. Python is the ideal language for network engineers to explore tools that were previously available to systems engineers and application developers. In this second edition of Mastering Python Networking, you’ll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from traditional network engineers to network developers ready for the next-generation of networks. This book begins by reviewing the basics of Python and teaches you how Python can interact with both legacy and API-enabled network devices. As you make your way through the chapters, you will then learn to leverage high-level Python packages and frameworks to perform network engineering tasks for automation, monitoring, management, and enhanced security. In the concluding chapters, you will use Jenkins for continuous network integration as well as testing tools to verify your network. By the end of this book, you will be able to perform all networking tasks with ease using Python.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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In this chapter, we covered a lot of ground. Building from our previous knowledge of Ansible, we expanded into more advanced topics such as conditionals, loops, and templates. We looked at how to make our playbook more scalable with host variables, group variables, include statements, and roles. We also looked at how to secure our playbook with the Ansible Vault. Finally, we used Python to make our own custom modules.

Ansible is a very flexible Python framework that can be used for network automation. It provides another abstraction layer separated from the likes of the Pexpect and API-based scripts. It is declarative in nature in that it is more expressive in terms of matching our intent. Depending on your needs and network environment, it might be the ideal framework that you can use to save time and energy.

In Chapter 6, Network Security with Python, we will look at...

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