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Python Network Programming

By : Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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Python Network Programming

By: Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Overview of this book

This Learning Path highlights major aspects of Python network programming such as writing simple networking clients, creating and deploying SDN and NFV systems, and extending your network with Mininet. You’ll also learn how to automate legacy and the latest network devices. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll use Python for DevOps and open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Toward the end, you'll develop client-side applications, such as web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP, using socket programming. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have learned how to analyze a network's security vulnerabilities using advanced network packet capture and analysis techniques. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Practical Network Automation by Abhishek Ratan • Mastering Python Networking by Eric Chou • Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition by Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Configuring OpenContrail controller


OpenContrail (http://www.opencontrail.org/) is an open source network virtualization platform for the cloud from Juniper Networks. In this recipe, we will learn to configure OpenContrail controller, also known as the OpenContrail core project (https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-controller). This project is developed in C++ and Python.

Getting ready

In this recipe we will configure OpenContrail. We will offer complementary information to the configuration instructions that can be found in https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-controller/wiki/OpenContrail-bring-up-and-provisioning. OpenContrail can be executed in a distributed environment consisting of multiple servers for configuration node, analytics node, a control node, and compute node. Each node serves their purpose and they all can be virtualized and installed inside fewer nodes. However, due to their hardware requirements (memory and CPU), it is recommended to run them in individual servers in a cluster...