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Mastering Python Networking

Mastering Python Networking - Fourth Edition

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking

Mastering Python Networking

4.5 (89)
By: Eric Chou

Overview of this book

Networks in your infrastructure set the foundation for deploying, maintaining, and servicing applications. Python is the ideal language for network engineers to explore tools that were previously available to systems engineers and application developers. Mastering Python Networking, Fourth edition, guides you on a Python-driven journey from traditional network engineering to modern network development. This new edition incorporates 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 and working examples to ensure compatibility and clarity 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. By the end of this book, you'll be a confident network developer capable of automating modern infrastructure using Python, DevOps practices, and cloud technologies.
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VyOS example

VyOS is a fully open source network OS that runs on a wide range of hardware, virtual machines, and cloud providers (https://vyos.io/). Because of its open-source nature, it is gaining wide support in the open-source community. Many of the open source projects are using VyOS as the default platform for testing. In the last section of the chapter, we will look at a quick VyOS example.

The VyOS image can be downloaded in various formats: https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/Installation. Once downloaded and initialized, we can install the Python library on our management host:

(venv) $ pip install vymgmt

The example script, vyos_1.py, is very simple:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import vymgmt
vyos = vymgmt.Router('192.168.2.116', 'vyos', password='vyos')
vyos.login()
vyos.configure()
vyos.set("system domain-name networkautomationnerds.net")
vyos.commit()
vyos.save()
vyos.exit()
vyos.logout()

We can execute the script to change the system domain name...

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