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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)

The Python API for Juniper networks

Juniper networks have always been a favorite among the service provider crowd. If we take a step back and look at the service provider vertical, it would make sense that automating network equipment is on the top of their list of requirements. Before the dawn of cloud-scale data centers, service providers were the ones with the most network equipment. A typical enterprise network might have a few redundant internet connections at the corporate headquarter with a few hub-and-spoke remote sites connected back to the HQ using the service provider's private MPLS network. To a service provider, they are the ones who need to build, provision, manage, and troubleshoot the connections and the underlying networks. They make their money by selling the bandwidth along with value-added managed services. It would make sense for the service providers...