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Mastering Python Networking

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Mastering Python Networking

Overview of this book

This book begins with a review of the TCP/ IP protocol suite and a refresher of the core elements of the Python language. Next, you will start using Python and supported libraries to automate network tasks from the current major network vendors. We will look at automating traditional network devices based on the command-line interface, as well as newer devices with API support, with hands-on labs. We will then learn the concepts and practical use cases of the Ansible framework in order to achieve your network goals. We will then move on to using Python for DevOps, starting with using open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Then, we will focus on network monitoring and visualization. We will learn how to retrieve network information using a polling mechanism, ?ow-based monitoring, and visualizing the data programmatically. Next, we will learn how to use the Python framework to build your own customized network web services. In the last module, you will use Python for SDN, where you will use a Python-based controller with OpenFlow in a hands-on lab to learn its concepts and applications. We will compare and contrast OpenFlow, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV. Finally, you will use everything you’ve learned in the book to construct a migration plan to go from a legacy to a scalable SDN-based network.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title
Humble Bundle
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV

Introduction to Flask


Like most popular open source projects, Flask has very good documentation, available at http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/. If any of the examples are unclear, you can be sure to find the answer on the project documentation.

Note

I would also highly recommend Miguel Grinberg's (https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/) work related to Flask. His blog, book, and video training has 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, namely chapter9_1.py:

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

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

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', debug=True)

This will almost always be your design pattern for Flask initially. We create an instance of the Flask class with...