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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 SDN

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784397005

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

DevOps

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python Language FREE CHAPTER

2. Low-Level Network Device Interactions

3. API and Intent-Driven Networking

4. The Python Automation Framework - Ansible Basics

5. The Python Automation Framework - Ansible Advance Topics

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. OpenFlow Basics

11. Advanced OpenFlow Topics

12. OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV

13. Hybrid SDN

Introducing OpenFlow

Let's start with an honest statement: OpenFlow is not SDN, and SDN is not OpenFlow. People often interchanged the two terms in the early days, but they are certainly not the same. OpenFlow is a very important building block of SDN, and many credit it to be the origin of the SDN movement. OpenFlow originally started at Stanford University as a research project, which eventually jump-started the startups of Nicira and Big Switch Networks. Nicira was acquired by VMWare and is now part of the company's network-virtualization product line. Big Switch Networks leads a number of OpenFlow open source projects such as Floodlight Controller, Switch Light OS for bar-metal Ethernet switches, and Switch Light vSwitch for virtual switches.

The original version of OpenFlow 1.1 was released in February 2011, and soon after the release, the OpenFlow effort was overseen by the Open Network Foundation, which retains control for the 1.2 release and beyond. In 2012, Google made a big wave...

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