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Practical Network Automation - Second Edition

By : Abhishek Ratan
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Practical Network Automation - Second Edition

By: Abhishek Ratan

Overview of this book

Network automation is the use of IT controls to supervise and carry out everyday network management functions. It plays a key role in network virtualization technologies and network functions. The book starts by providing an introduction to network automation, and its applications, which include integrating DevOps tools to automate the network efficiently. It then guides you through different network automation tasks and covers various data digging and performing tasks such as ensuring golden state configurations using templates, interface parsing. This book also focuses on Intelligent Operations using Artificial Intelligence and troubleshooting using chatbots and voice commands. The book then moves on to the use of Python and the management of SSH keys for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, all followed by practical use cases. The book also covers the importance of Ansible for network automation, including best practices in automation; ways to test automated networks using tools such as Puppet, SaltStack, and Chef; and other important techniques. Through practical use-cases and examples, this book will acquaint you with the various aspects of network automation. It will give you the solid foundation you need to automate your own network without any hassle.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Questions

  1. As a best practice and to keep the script simple and readable, we should not add any comments to the script [True/False].

  2. In the phrase I have been learning Python for the last 1 month and 2 days, what is the smallest possible regular expression that would return the value 2 days?

  3. While performing an encoding using base64, the value returned is in bytes. Which specific method do we use to ensure it is converted to the String value?

  4. To ensure the password we type is not visible to anyone, what is the method we can invoke to ask for the password from the user?

  5. What are the w and a modes in a file operation?

  6. What is a library in Python?