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Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

By : José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington
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Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

By: José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington

Overview of this book

Network programming has always been a demanding task. With full-featured and well-documented libraries all the way up the stack, Python makes network programming the enjoyable experience it should be. Starting with a walk through of today's major networking protocols, through this book, you'll learn how to employ Python for network programming, how to request and retrieve web resources, and how to extract data in major formats over the web. You will utilize Python for emailing using different protocols, and you'll interact with remote systems and IP and DNS networking. You will cover the connection of networking devices and configuration using Python 3.7, along with cloud-based network management tasks using Python. As the book progresses, socket programming will be covered, followed by how to design servers, and the pros and cons of multithreaded and event-driven architectures. You'll develop practical clientside applications, including web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP. These applications will also be implemented through existing web application frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to Network and HTTP Programming
4
Section 2: Interacting with APIs, Web Scraping, and Server Scripting
9
Section 3: IP Address Manipulation and Network Automation
13
Section 4: Sockets and Server Programming

Basics of Ansible

In this section, you will learn about the basics of Ansible for network automation, including how to install and configure Ansible.

Ansible introduction

Ansible (https://docs.ansible.com) is a software that automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. It is categorized as an orchestration tool. In other words, Ansible allows DevOps to manage their servers, configurations, and applications in a simple, robust, and parallel way.

Ansible is a deployment-automation tool, similar to Puppet and Chef, but its main characteristic is that it is agentless; that is, it does not need to install an agent on managed hosts.

This tool manages its different nodes through SSH for the...