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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)

Introduction to Git

Git was created by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, in April 2005. With his dry wit, he has affectionately called the tool the information manager from hell. In an interview with the Linux Foundation, Linus mentioned that he felt source-control management was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds/). Nevertheless, he created the tool after a disagreement between the Linux kernel developer community and BitKeeper, the proprietary system they were using at the time.

What does the name Git stand for? In British English slang, a Git is an insult denoting an unpleasant, annoying, childish person. With his dry humor, Linus said he is an egotistical bastard and that he named all of his projects after himself. First Linux, now Git...