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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.
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Flask is no doubt a feature-rich framework that is growing in features and in the community. We have covered a lot of topics in this chapter, but we have still only scraped the surface of the framework. Besides APIs, you can use Flask for web applications as well as your websites. There are a few improvements that I think we can still make to our network API framework:

  • Separate out the database and each endpoint in its own file so that the code is cleaner and easier to troubleshoot.
  • Migrate from SQLite to other production-ready databases.
  • Use token-based authentication instead of passing the username and password for every transaction. In essence, we will receive a token with finite expiration time upon initial authentication and use the token for further transactions until the expiration.
  • Deploy your Flask API app behind a production web server, such as...

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