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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

Setting Up the Network Lab Environment

We now have a fair idea of how to write and develop Python scripts, the building blocks to creating programs. We will now move on to understanding why automation is an important topic in today's network, and then we will build our network automation lab using one of the popular pieces of software, called EVE-NG, which helps us to virtualize network devices.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • When and why to automate the network
  • Screen scraping versus API automation
  • Why to use Python for network automation
  • The future of network automation
  • Lab setup
  • Getting ready: installing EVE-NG
  • Building an enterprise network topology
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