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Practical Network Automation

You're reading from   Practical Network Automation Leverage the power of Python and Ansible to optimize your network

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299466
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhishek Ratan Abhishek Ratan
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Preface 1. Fundamental Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Python for Network Engineers 3. Accessing and Mining Data from Network 4. Web Framework for Automation Triggers 5. Ansible for Network Automation 6. Continuous Integration for Network Engineers 7. SDN Concepts in Network Automation

Why create web-based scripts/frameworks?


A web framework is a collection of scripts, hosted on a web platform such as Internet Information Services (IIS) (on Windows) or Apache (on Linux), and calling the same script using front-end web-based languages such as HTML.

There are times when people ask why we want to migrate our current scripts or create scripts on a web framework. The answer is very simple. A web framework ensures that our scripts are used by multiple end users using just the browser. This gives the programmer the independence to code the script on their preferred platform (such as Windows or Linux), and people can use the scripts on their choice of browser. They don't need to understand how you have written the code, or what you are calling or using in the back-end, and of course, this ensures that you prevent your code from being directly visible to end users. 

Let's say  you have written a script that calls four or five libraries for specific tasks. There are general libraries...

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