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Practical Network Automation

You're reading from   Practical Network Automation A beginner's guide to automating and optimizing networks using Python, Ansible, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955651
Length 226 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Abhishek Ratan Abhishek Ratan
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Preface 1. Fundamental Concepts of Network Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Python Automation for Network Engineers 3. Ansible and Network Templatizations 4. Using Artificial Intelligence in Operations 5. Web Framework for Automation Triggers 6. Continual Integration 7. Assessment 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Interacting with network devices

Python is widely used to perform multiple tasks. One of the tasks that widely uses Python is network automation. With its wide set of libraries (such as Netmiko and Paramiko), there are endless possibilities for network device interactions for different vendors. Owing to the support of Python, the list of supported devices continues to expand with the developer community, adding support for additional vendors as they are introduced to market.

Before we proceed to interact with devices, let us understand one of the most widely used libraries for network interactions. We will be using Netmiko to perform our network interactions.

Netmiko (https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko) is a library/module in Python that is used extensively to interact with network devices. This is a multi-vendor library with support for Cisco IOS, NX-OS, firewalls, and many other...

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