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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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Cisco Meraki controller

Cisco Meraki is a cloud-based centralized controller that simplifies IT management of devices. The approach is very similar to ACI with the exception that the controller has a cloud-based public URL. The user typically receives the API key via the GUI, then it can be used in a Python script to retrieve the organization ID:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import requests
import pprint
myheaders={'X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key': <skip>}
url ='https://dashboard.meraki.com/api/v0/organizations'
response = requests.get(url, headers=myheaders, verify=False)
pprint.pprint(response.json())

Let us execute the script, cisco_meraki_1.py, which is a simple request toward an always-on Meraki controller provided by Cisco DevNet:

(venv) $ python cisco_meraki_1.py
 [{'id': '681155',
  'name': 'DeLab',
  'url': 'https://n6.meraki.com/o/49Gm_c/manage/organization/overview'},
 {'id':...