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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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Index

Azure and AWS network service comparison

When Azure launched, they were more focused on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), with less of a focus on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). For SaaS and PaaS, the networking services at the lower layers are often abstracted away from the user. For example, the SaaS offering of Office 365 is often offered as a remotely hosted endpoint that can be reached over the public internet. The PaaS offering of building web applications using Azure App Service is often done via a fully managed process, via popular frameworks such as .NET or Node.js.

The IaaS offering, on the other hand, requires us to build our infrastructure in the Azure cloud. As the undisputed leader in the space, much of the target audience already has experience with AWS. To help with the transition, Azure provides an “AWS to Azure Service Comparison” (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/services) on...