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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788998512

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Build Automation

Author (1):

Aly

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Setting Up Our Python Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Common Libraries Used in Automation

3. Setting Up the Network Lab Environment

4. Using Python to Manage Network Devices

5. Extracting Useful Data from Network Devices

6. Configuration Generator with Python and Jinja2

7. Parallel Execution of Python Script

8. Preparing a Lab Environment

9. Using the Subprocess Module

10. Running System Administration Tasks with Fabric

11. Generating System Reports and System Monitoring

12. Interacting with the Database

13. Ansible for System Administration

14. Creating and Managing VMware Virtual Machines

15. Interacting with the OpenStack API

16. Automating AWS with Boto3

17. Using the Scapy Framework

18. Building a Network Scanner Using Python

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Index

When and why to automate the network

Network automation is increasing all over the network world. However, it's really important to understand when and why to automate your network. For example, if you're an administrator of a few network devices (three or four switches) and you don't execute so many tasks on them regularly, then you might not need full automation for them. Actually, the time needed to write and develop a script and test and troubleshoot it might be greater than the time to do a simple taskmanually. On the other hand, if you're responsible for a big enterprise network that contains multi-vendor platforms and you always execute repetitive tasks, then it's highly recommended to have a script to automate it.

Why do we need automation?

There are several reasons for why automation is important for networks today:

Lower costs: Using automation solutions (either developed in-house or purchased from vendors) will reduce network operation complexity and the time required to provision...