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Mastering Python Networking

You're reading from   Mastering Python Networking Your one-stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and Test-Driven Development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135992
Length 466 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Low-Level Network Device Interactions 3. APIs and Intent-Driven Networking 4. The Python Automation Framework – Ansible Basics 5. The Python Automation Framework – Beyond Basics 6. Network Security with Python 7. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 1 8. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 2 9. Building Network Web Services with Python 10. AWS Cloud Networking 11. Working with Git 12. Continuous Integration with Jenkins 13. Test-Driven Development for Networks 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Infrastructure as code

In a perfect world, network engineers and architects who design and manage networks should focus on what they want the network to achieve instead of the device-level interactions. In my first job as an intern for a local ISP, wide-eyed and excited, my first assignment was to install a router on a customer's site to turn up their fractional frame relay link (remember those?). How would I do that? I asked. I was handed a standard operating procedure for turning up frame relay links. I went to the customer site, blindly typed in the commands, and looked at the green lights flashing, then happily packed my bag and patted myself on the back for a job well done. As exciting as that first assignment was, I did not fully understand what I was doing. I was simply following instructions without thinking about the implication of the commands I was typing in. How...

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