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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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Getting ready – installing EVE-NG

EVE-NG Community edition came with two options, OVA and ISO. The first option is to use OVA, which gives you the minimum installation steps required, given that you already haveVMware Player/Workstation/Fusion, or VMware ESXi, or Red Hat KVM. The second option is to install it directly over a bare metal server without a hypervisor, this time using Ubuntu 16.06 LTS OS:

The ISO option, however, requires some advanced skills in Linux to prepare the machine itself and import the installation repositories into the operating system.

Note

Oracle VirtualBox doesn't support the hardware acceleration needed by EVE-NG, so it's better to install it either in VMware or KVM.

First, head tohttp://www.eve-ng.net/index.php/downloads/eve-ngto download the latest version of EVE-NG, then import it into your hypervisor. I dedicated 8 GB of memory and four vCPUs to the created machine, but you can add additional resources to it. In the next section, we will see how to import the...