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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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Eric Chou Eric Chou
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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 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

Continuous Integration with Jenkins

The network touches every part of the technology stack; in all of the environments I have worked in, the network is always a Tier-Zero service. It is a foundation service that other services rely on for their services to work. In the minds of other engineers, business managers, operators, and support staff, the network should just work. It should always be accessible and function correctly—a good network is a network that nobody hears about.

Of course, as network engineers, we know the network is as complex as any other technology stack. Due to its complexity, the constructs that make up a running network can be fragile at times. Sometimes, I look at a network and wonder how it can work at all, let alone how it's been running for months and years without any business impact.

Part of the reason we are interested in network automation is to find ways to repeat our network-change process reliably...

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