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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)

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 and simple; you will need a credit card and some form of verification. AWS offers a number of services in a free tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free/), where you can use some of the most popular services for free up to a certain level.

Some of the services listed are free for the first year, and others are free up to a certain limit without time restraint. Please check the AWS site for the latest offerings:

AWS free tier

Once you have an account, you can sign in via the AWS console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/) and take a look at the different services offered by AWS. The console is where we can configure all the services and look at our monthly bills:

AWS console

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