pyATS and Genie
pyATS (https://developer.cisco.com/pyats/) is an end-to-end testing ecosystem originally developed by Cisco and made available to the public in late 2017. The pyATS library was formerly known as Genie; they will often be referred to in the same context. Because of its roots, the framework is very focused on network testing.
pyATS, and the pyATS library (also known as Genie), was the winner of the 2018 Cisco Pioneer Award. We should all applaud Cisco for making the framework open source and available to the public. Good job, Cisco DevNet!
The framework is available on PyPI:
$ pip install pyats
To get started, we can look at some of the example scripts on the GitHub repository, https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/pyats-sample-scripts. The tests start with creating a testbed file in YAML format. We will create a simple chapter16_pyats_testbed_1.yml testbed file for our lax-edge-r1-edg-r1 device. The file should look similar to the Ansible inventory file that...
