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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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Eric Chou Eric Chou
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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

Summary

In this chapter we took a grand tour of the open source automation framework, Ansible. Unlike Pexpect-based and API-driven network automation scripts, Ansible provides a higher layer of abstraction called a playbook to automate our network devices.

Ansible was originally constructed to manage servers and was later extended to network devices; therefore, we took a look at a server example. Then, we compared and contrasted the differences when it came to network management playbooks. Later, we looked at the example playbooks for Cisco IOS, Juniper JUNOS, and Arista EOS devices. We also looked at the best practices recommended by Ansible if you are using the latest Ansible release, version 2.8.

In Chapter 5, The Python Automation Framework – Beyond Basics, we will leverage the knowledge we gained in this chapter and start to look at some of the more advanced features of Ansible, such as group variables, templates, and conditional statements.

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