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Mastering Python Networking - Fourth Edition

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking - Fourth 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 Mastering Python Networking, Fourth edition, you'll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from a traditional network engineer to a network developer ready for the next generation of networks. This new edition is completely revised and updated to work with the latest Python features and DevOps frameworks. In addition to new chapters on introducing Docker containers and Python 3 Async IO for network engineers, each chapter is updated with the latest libraries with working examples to ensure compatibility and understanding of the concepts. Starting with a basic overview of Python, the book teaches you how it can interact with both legacy and API-enabled network devices. You will learn to leverage high-level Python packages and frameworks to perform network automation tasks, monitoring, management, and enhanced network security, followed by AWS and Azure cloud networking. You will use Git for code management, GitLab for continuous integration, and Python-based testing tools to verify your network.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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AWS Cloud Networking

Cloud computing is one of the major trends in computing today and has been for many years. Public cloud providers have transformed the start-up industry and what it means to launch a service from scratch. We no longer need to build our own infrastructure; we can pay public cloud providers to rent a portion of their resources for our infrastructure needs. Nowadays, walking around any technology conferences or meetups, we will be hard-pressed to find someone who has not learned about, used, or built services based in the cloud. Cloud computing is here, and we had better get used to working with it.

There are several cloud computing service models, roughly divided into Software-as-a-Service (SaaS — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Platform_as_a_service_(PaaS)), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_a_service...