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Mastering Python Networking - Fourth Edition

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking - Fourth Edition

By: Eric Chou

Overview of this book

Networks in your infrastructure set the foundation for how your application can be deployed, maintained, and serviced. Python is the ideal language for network engineers to explore tools that were previously available to systems engineers and application developers. In Mastering Python Networking, Fourth edition, you'll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from a traditional network engineer to a network developer ready for the next generation of networks. This new edition is completely revised and updated to work with the latest Python features and DevOps frameworks. In addition to new chapters on introducing Docker containers and Python 3 Async IO for network engineers, each chapter is updated with the latest libraries with working examples to ensure compatibility and understanding of the concepts. Starting with a basic overview of Python, the book teaches you how it can interact with both legacy and API-enabled network devices. You will learn to leverage high-level Python packages and frameworks to perform network automation tasks, monitoring, management, and enhanced network security, followed by AWS and Azure cloud networking. You will use Git for code management, GitLab for continuous integration, and Python-based testing tools to verify your network.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

AWS Setup

If you do not already have an AWS account and wish to follow along with these examples, please log on to https://aws.amazon.com/ and sign up. The process is pretty straightforward; you will need a credit card and some way to verify your identity, such as a mobile phone that can accept text messages.

A good thing about AWS when we are just getting started is that they offer many services in a free tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free/), where you can use the services for free up to a certain level. For example, we will use the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service in this chapter; the free tier for EC2 is the first 750 hours per month for its t2.micro or t3.micro instances for the first 12 months.

I recommend always starting with the free tier and gradually increasing your tier when the need arises. Please check the AWS site for the latest offerings:

Figure 1: AWS free tier (source: https://aws.amazon.com/free/)

Once you have an account...