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Mastering Python Networking - Third Edition

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking - Third 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, Third edition, you’ll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from traditional network engineers to network developers ready for the next-generation of networks. This new edition is completely revised and updated to work with Python 3. In addition to new chapters on network data analysis with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats) and Azure Cloud Networking, it includes updates on using newer libraries such as pyATS and Nornir, as well as Ansible 2.8. 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 Azure and AWS Cloud networking. Finally, you will use Jenkins for continuous integration as well as testing tools to verify your network.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Introduction to Flask

Like most popular open source projects, Flask has very good documentation, which is available at https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/. If you'd like to dig deeper into Flask, the project documentation would be a great place to start.

I would also highly recommend Miguel Grinberg's work (https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/) related to Flask. His blog, book, and video training have taught me a lot about Flask. In fact, Miguel's class, Building Web APIs with Flask, inspired me to write this chapter. You can take a look at his published code on GitHub: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/oreilly-flask-apis-video.

Our first Flask application is contained in one single file, chapter9_1.py:

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def hello_networkers():
    return 'Hello Networkers!'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='0...