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Mastering Python Networking

You're reading from   Mastering Python Networking Your one-stop solution to using Python for network automation, programmability, and DevOps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214677
Length 576 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 Basics 5. The Python Automation Framework – Beyond Basics 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. AWS Cloud Networking 11. Azure Cloud Networking 12. Network Data Analysis with Elastic Stack 13. Working with Git 14. Continuous Integration with Jenkins 15. Test-Driven Development for Networks 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Installing Jenkins

For the examples we will use in this chapter, we can install Jenkins on the management host or a separate machine. As indicated in previous chapters, my personal preference is to install it on a separate virtual machine. The virtual machine will have a similar network set up as the management host up to this point, with one interface for the internet connection and another interface for the VMNet2 connection to the VIRL management network.

The Jenkins image and installation instructions per operating system can be found at https://jenkins.io/download/ and https://jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/.

The following are the instructions I used to install Jenkins on the Ubuntu host. Jenkins does not require a lot of hardware power; a single vCPU and 2 GB of RAM is what I have used in the lab. It also requires either Java 8 or 11 to be installed. We will use OpenJDK-11 for our server:

$ sudo apt install openjdk-11-jre-headless
$ java --version
openjdk 11.0.4 2019...
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