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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

Automating configuration backup

In this example, we will use PyGithub to back up a directory containing our router configurations. We have seen how we can retrieve the information from our devices with Python or Ansible; we can now check them into GitHub.

We have a subdirectory, named config, with our router configs in text format:

$ ls configs/ 
iosv-1 iosv-2

$ cat configs/iosv-1 
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 4573 bytes
!
! Last configuration change at 02:50:05 UTC Sat Jun 2 2018 by cisco
!
version 15.6
service timestamps debug datetime msec
...

We can use the following script, Chapter13_1.py, to retrieve the latest index from our GitHub repository, build the content that we need to commit, and automatically commit the configuration:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38594717/how-do-i-push-new-files-to-github

from github import Github, InputGitTreeElement...
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