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Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python Automate common administrative and security tasks with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998512
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting Up Our Python Environment 2. Common Libraries Used in Automation FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up the Network Lab Environment 4. Using Python to Manage Network Devices 5. Extracting Useful Data from Network Devices 6. Configuration Generator with Python and Jinja2 7. Parallel Execution of Python Script 8. Preparing a Lab Environment 9. Using the Subprocess Module 10. Running System Administration Tasks with Fabric 11. Generating System Reports and System Monitoring 12. Interacting with the Database 13. Ansible for System Administration 14. Creating and Managing VMware Virtual Machines 15. Interacting with the OpenStack API 16. Automating AWS with Boto3 17. Using the Scapy Framework 18. Building a Network Scanner Using Python 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Getting the Linux operating system

In the next sections, we are going to create two Linux machines, CentOS and Ubuntu, on different hypervisors. The machines will serve as the automation server in our environment.

Downloading CentOS

CentOS binaries can be downloaded through multiple methods. You can download them directly from multiple FTP servers around the world, or you can download them as torrents, from people who seed them. Also, CentOS is available in two flavors:

  • Minimal ISO: Provides the basic server, with essential packages
  • Everything ISO: Provides the server and all available packages from the main repositories

First, head to the CentOS project link (https://www.centos.org/) and click on the Get CentOS Now button...

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