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Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python

By : Bassem Aly
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Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python

By: Bassem Aly

Overview of this book

Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python starts by covering the set up of a Python environment to perform automation tasks, as well as the modules, libraries, and tools you will be using. We’ll explore examples of network automation tasks using simple Python programs and Ansible. Next, we will walk you through automating administration tasks with Python Fabric, where you will learn to perform server configuration and administration, along with system administration tasks such as user management, database management, and process management. As you progress through this book, you’ll automate several testing services with Python scripts and perform automation tasks on virtual machines and cloud infrastructure with Python. In the concluding chapters, you will cover Python-based offensive security tools and learn how to automate your security tasks. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills of automating several system administration tasks with Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Accessing module source code

You can access the source code of any module that you use in two ways. First, go to the module page at github.com and view all the files, releases, commits, and issues in one place, as in the following screenshot. I have read access to all shared code via the netmiko module maintainer and can see a full list of commits and file contents:

The second method is to install the package itself in the Python site-package directory using pip or PyCharm GUI. What pip actually does is it goes to GitHub and downloads the module content and runs setup.py to install and register the module. You can see the module files, but this time you have full read/write access on all files and you can change the original code. For example, the following code leverages the netmiko library to connect to a Cisco device and execute the show arp command on it:

from netmiko import...