Other libraries

We’ll finish this chapter by mentioning that there are several excellent efforts in terms of vendor-neutral libraries such as Nornir (https://nornir.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html), Netmiko (https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko), NAPALM (https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm), and Scrapli (https://carlmontanari.github.io/scrapli/). We have seen some of their examples in the last chapter. Most of these vendor-neutral libraries are likely a step slower to support the latest platform or features. However, because the libraries are vendor neutral, if you do not like vendor lock-in for your tools, these libraries are good choices. Another benefit of using vendor-neutral libraries is that they are normally open source, so you can contribute upstream for new features and bug fixes.