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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

The Ansible Juniper example

The Ansible Juniper module requires the Juniper PyEZ package and NETCONF. If you have been following the API example in Chapter 3, APIs and Intent-Driven Networking, you are good to go. If not, refer back to that section for installation instructions as well as some test script to make sure PyEZ works. The Python package called jxmlease is also required:

(venv) $ pip install jxmlease

In the host file, we will specify the device and connection variables:

[junos_devices]
J1 ansible_host=192.168.24.252

[junos_devices:vars]
username=juniper
password=juniper!

In our Juniper playbook, we will use the junos_facts module to gather basic facts for the device. This module is equivalent to the setup module and will come in handy if we need to take action depending on the returned value. Note the different values of transport and port in the example here:

---
- name: Get Juniper Device Facts
  hosts: "junos_devices&quot...
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