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Mastering Python Networking - Second Edition

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking - Second 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 this second edition of Mastering Python Networking, 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 book begins by reviewing the basics of Python and teaches you how Python can interact with both legacy and API-enabled network devices. As you make your way through the chapters, you will then learn to leverage high-level Python packages and frameworks to perform network engineering tasks for automation, monitoring, management, and enhanced security. In the concluding chapters, you will use Jenkins for continuous network integration as well as testing tools to verify your network. By the end of this book, you will be able to perform all networking tasks with ease using Python.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Setting up Git

So far, we have been using Git to just download files from GitHub. In this section, we will go a bit further by setting up Git variables so we can start committing our files. I am going to use the same Ubuntu 16.04 host in the example. The installation process is well-documented; if you are using a different version of Linux or other operating systems, a quick search should land you at the right set of instructions.

If you have not done so already, install Git via the apt package-management tool:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y git
$ git --version
git version 2.7.4

Once git is installed, we need to configure a few things so our commit messages can contain the correct information:

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
$ git config --list
user.name=Your Name
user.email=email@domain...