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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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Elastic Stack as a Service

Elasticsearch is a popular service available as a hosted option by both Elastic.co and other cloud providers. Elastic Cloud (https://www.elastic.co/cloud/) does not have an infrastructure of its own, but it offers the option to spin up deployments on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure. Because Elastic Cloud is built on other public cloud VM offerings, the cost will be a bit more than getting it directly from the cloud provider, such as AWS:

Figure 8: Elastic Cloud offerings

AWS offers a hosted OpenSearch product (https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/) tightly integrated with the existing AWS offerings. For example, AWS CloudWatch Logs can be streamed directly to the AWS OpenSearch instance (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CWL_OpenSearch_Stream.html ).

From my own experience, as attractive as the Elastic Stack is for its advantages, it is a project that I feel is easy to get started but hard to scale...