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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788998512

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Build Automation

Author (1):

Bassem Aly

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up Our Python Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Common Libraries Used in Automation

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

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Summary

Ansible is a very powerful tool, used to automate IT infrastructure. It contains many modules and libraries that cover almost everything in system and network automation, making software deployment, package management, and configuration management very easy. While Ansible can execute a single module in ad hoc mode, the real power of Ansible is in writing and developing playbooks.

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Authors (1)

Aly

Aly

Bassem Aly is a senior SDN/NFV solution consultant at Juniper Networks and has been working in the telecom industry for the last 10 years. He is focused on designing and implementing next-generation networks by leveraging different automation and DevOps frameworks. Also, he has extensive experience in architecting and deploying telecom applications over OpenStack. Bassem also conducts corporate training on network automation and network programmability using Python and Ansible. Finally, he's an active blogger on different technology areas and is the author of Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python, published by Packt.

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