pyATS and Genie
pyATS (https://developer.cisco.com/pyats/) is an open source, end-to-end testing ecosystem originally developed by Cisco and made available to public in late 2017. The pyATS library was formerly known as Genie; many times they will be referred to in the same context. Because of its roots, the framework is very focused on network testing.
pyATS and the pyATS library (also known as Genie) was the winner of the 2018 Cisco Pioneer Award. We should all applaud Cisco for making the framework open source and available to the public. Good job, Cisco DevNet!
The framework is available on PyPI:
(venv) echou@network-dev-2:~$ pip install pyats
To get started, we can take a look at some of the example scripts on the GitHub repository, https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/pyats-sample-scripts. The tests start with creating a testbed file in YAML format. We will create a simple chapter15_pyats_testbed_1.yml testbed file for our iovs-1 device. The file...
