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Mastering Python Networking - Third Edition

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking - Third 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, Third edition, you’ll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from traditional network engineers to network developers ready for the next-generation of networks. This new edition is completely revised and updated to work with Python 3. In addition to new chapters on network data analysis with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats) and Azure Cloud Networking, it includes updates on using newer libraries such as pyATS and Nornir, as well as Ansible 2.8. 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 Azure and AWS Cloud networking. Finally, you will use Jenkins for continuous integration as well as testing tools to verify your network.
Table of Contents (18 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 Services 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 own infrastructure in the Azure cloud. As the undisputed leader in the space, much of the target audience has already had 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)...