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Mastering Python Networking

Mastering Python Networking

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking

Mastering Python Networking

4.5 (88)
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 Mastering Python Networking, Fourth edition, you'll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from a traditional network engineer to a network developer ready for the next generation of networks. This new edition is completely revised and updated to work with the latest Python features and DevOps frameworks. In addition to new chapters on introducing Docker containers and Python 3 Async IO for network engineers, each chapter is updated with the latest libraries with working examples to ensure compatibility and understanding of the concepts. Starting with a basic overview of Python, the book teaches you how it can interact with both legacy and API-enabled network devices. You will learn to leverage high-level Python packages and frameworks to perform network automation tasks, monitoring, management, and enhanced network security, followed by AWS and Azure cloud networking. You will use Git for code management, GitLab for continuous integration, and Python-based testing tools to verify your network.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Network Monitoring with Python – Part 1
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Graphviz

Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software. Imagine if we have to describe our network topology to a colleague without the benefit of a picture. We might say, our network consists of three layers: core, distribution, and access.

The core layer comprises two routers for redundancy, and both of the routers are full-meshed toward the four distribution routers; the distribution routers are also full-meshed toward the access routers. The internal routing protocol is OSPF, and externally, we use BGP for peering with our service provider. While this description lacks some details, it is probably enough for your colleague to paint a pretty good high-level picture of your network.

Graphviz works similarly to the process by describing the graph in a text format that Graphviz can understand in a text file. We can then feed the file to the Graphviz program to construct the graph. Here, the graph is described in a text format called DOT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_language...

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