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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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Contributors

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

Creating an automation machine on a hypervisor

After downloading the ISO files, we will create a Linux machine over VMware ESXi and KVM hypervisors.

Creating a Linux machine over VMware ESXi

We will use the VMware vSphere client to create a virtual machine. Log in to one of the available ESXi servers using root credentials. First, you will need to upload either the Ubuntu or CentOS ISO to the VMware data store. Then, follow these steps to create the machine:

Right-click on the server name and choose New Virtual Machine:

Choose a Custom installation, so that you will have more options during the installation:

Provide a name for the VM: AutomationServer.
Choose the machine version: 8.
Choose the data store on which the machine will be created.

Choose the guest operating system: either Ubuntu Linux (64-bit) or Red Hat version 6/7:

The VM specification shouldn't have less than 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM, in order to have efficient performance. Select them in the CPU and Memory tabs respectively.