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Mastering Python Networking

Mastering Python Networking - Fourth Edition

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking

Mastering Python Networking

4.5 (89)
By: Eric Chou

Overview of this book

Networks in your infrastructure set the foundation for deploying, maintaining, and servicing applications. Python is the ideal language for network engineers to explore tools that were previously available to systems engineers and application developers. Mastering Python Networking, Fourth edition, guides you on a Python-driven journey from traditional network engineering to modern network development. This new edition incorporates 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 and working examples to ensure compatibility and clarity 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. By the end of this book, you'll be a confident network developer capable of automating modern infrastructure using Python, DevOps practices, and cloud technologies.
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The Advantages of Ansible

There are many infrastructure automation frameworks besides Ansible—namely Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack. Each framework offers its unique features; no one right framework fits all organizations. In this section, let’s take a look at some of the advantages of Ansible over and why I believe it is a good tool for network automation.

The advantages will be listed with limited comparison to other frameworks to not start a flame war. Other frameworks might adopt some of the same philosophies or certain aspects of Ansible, but rarely do they contain all of the features that I will be mentioning. It is the combination of all the following features and philosophies that makes Ansible ideal for network automation.

Agentless

Unlike some of its peers, Ansible does not require a strict master-client model. No software or agent needs to be installed on the client that communicates back to the server. Outside of the Python interpreter, which many platforms have...

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