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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

pytest Integration with Jenkins

Continuous Integration (CI) systems, such as Jenkins, are frequently used to launch tests after each of the code commits. This is one of the major benefits of using a CI system.

Imagine that there is an invisible engineer who is always watching for any changes in the network; upon detecting a change, the engineer will faithfully test a bunch of functions to make sure that nothing breaks. Who wouldn't want that?

Let's look at an example of integrating pytest into Jenkins tasks.

Jenkins integration

Before we can insert the test cases into our CI, let's install some of the plugins that can help us visualize the operation. The two plugins we will install are build-name-setter and Test Results Analyzer:

Figure 2: Jenkins plugin installation

The test we will run will reach out to the NX-OS device and retrieve the operating system version number. This will ensure that we have API reachability to the Nexus device. The full...