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Mastering Python Networking

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Mastering Python Networking

Overview of this book

This book begins with a review of the TCP/ IP protocol suite and a refresher of the core elements of the Python language. Next, you will start using Python and supported libraries to automate network tasks from the current major network vendors. We will look at automating traditional network devices based on the command-line interface, as well as newer devices with API support, with hands-on labs. We will then learn the concepts and practical use cases of the Ansible framework in order to achieve your network goals. We will then move on to using Python for DevOps, starting with using open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Then, we will focus on network monitoring and visualization. We will learn how to retrieve network information using a polling mechanism, ?ow-based monitoring, and visualizing the data programmatically. Next, we will learn how to use the Python framework to build your own customized network web services. In the last module, you will use Python for SDN, where you will use a Python-based controller with OpenFlow in a hands-on lab to learn its concepts and applications. We will compare and contrast OpenFlow, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV. Finally, you will use everything you’ve learned in the book to construct a migration plan to go from a legacy to a scalable SDN-based network.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title
Humble Bundle
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
12
OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV

Security


For user authentication security, we will use Flask's extension httpauth, written by Miguel Grinberg, as well as the password functions in Werkzeug. The httpauth extension should have been installed as part of the requirements.txt installation in the beginning of the chapter. The file is named chapter9_9.py; we will start with a few more module imports:

...
from werkzeug.security import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash
from flask.ext.httpauth import HTTPBasicAuth
...

We will create an HTTPBasicAuth object as well as the user database object. Note that during the user creation process, we will pass the password value; however, we are only storing password_hash instead of the password itself:

auth = HTTPBasicAuth()

class User(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'users'
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    username = db.Column(db.String(64), index=True)
    password_hash = db.Column(db.String(128))

    def set_password(self, password):
        self.password_hash...