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Mastering Python Networking

You're reading from   Mastering Python Networking Utilize Python packages and frameworks for network automation, monitoring, cloud, and management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234618
Length 594 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Preface 1. Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python 2. Low-Level Network Device Interactions FREE CHAPTER 3. APIs and Intent-Driven Networking 4. The Python Automation Framework – Ansible 5. Docker Containers for Network Engineers 6. Network Security with Python 7. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 1 8. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 2 9. Building Network Web Services with Python 10. Introduction to Async IO 11. AWS Cloud Networking 12. Azure Cloud Networking 13. Network Data Analysis with Elastic Stack 14. Working with Git 15. Continuous Integration with GitLab 16. Test-Driven Development for Networks 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

What is the Elastic Stack?

The Elastic Stack is also known as the "ELK" Stack. So, what is it? Let's see what the developers have to say in their own words (https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elk-stack):

"ELK" is the acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a serverside data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to a "stash" like Elasticsearch. Kibana lets users visualize data with charts and graphs in Elasticsearch. The Elastic Stack is the next evolution of the ELK Stack.
Figure 1: Elastic Stack (source: https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elk-stack)

As we can see from the statement, the Elastic Stack is a collection of different projects working together to cover the whole spectrum of data collection, storage, retrieval, analytics, and visualization. What is nice about the...

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