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Mastering Python Networking

You're reading from   Mastering Python Networking Utilize Python packages and frameworks for network automation, monitoring, cloud, and management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234618
Length 594 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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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 5. Docker Containers for Network Engineers 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. Introduction to Async IO 11. AWS Cloud Networking 12. Azure Cloud Networking 13. Network Data Analysis with Elastic Stack 14. Working with Git 15. Continuous Integration with GitLab 16. Test-Driven Development for Networks 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

AWS setup

If you do not already have an AWS account and wish to follow along with these examples, please log on to https://aws.amazon.com/ and sign up. The process is pretty straightforward; you will need a credit card and some way to verify your identity, such as a mobile phone that can accept text messages.

A good thing about AWS when you are just getting started is that they offer many services in a free tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free/), where you can use the services for free up to a certain level. For example, we will use the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service in this chapter; the free tier for EC2 is the first 750 hours per month for its t2.micro or t3.micro instances for the first 12 months.

I recommend always starting with the free tier and gradually increasing your tier when the need arises. Please check the AWS site for the latest offerings:

Figure 11.1: AWS free tier

Once you have an account, you can sign in via the AWS console (https://console...

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