Clouds

Python 202- Network Automation

Essential Skills Gained

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Sending HTTP Requests to APIs with builtin and 3rd party libraries

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Opening Telnet Sessions with builtin libraries

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Automating SSH commands with Paramiko

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Performing ICMP Pings

Format

5 day course with lecture and hands-on labs.

Audience

This course was written for networking professionals looking to expand their capabilities by automating their workload with Python. This includes: Network Engineers, Network Architects, System Admins, DevOps Engineers, Cisco Certified Professionals (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE), and developers interested in network programmability with Python.

Description

Managing networks can be repetitive and error-prone, but Python can make incredible changes to how you automate with all major (and most minor) network vendors. This course is driven by lessons and labs designed to utilize Python libraries designed to interact with and configure your network devices. At the conclusion of this course, you’ll be empowered with the tools and skills necessary to take your network to the next level. This class is a combination of live demonstrations and hands-on labs with virtual network devices and endpoints as targets for your configuration.

Summary

  • 💻 Register for Poll

  • 💻 Welcome to Alta3 Research Labs

Up and Running

  • 💻 Using vim

  • 💻 Introduction to VScode

  • 💻 Tmux Basics

Certification

  • 💻 Python for Network Automation - Certification Project

AI LLM Toolkit

  • 💻 Large Language Model toolkit for AI Solution Assistance

Software Control Management

  • 💻 SCM Option #1 - GitHub

  • 💻 SCM Option #2 - GitLab

Python

  • 💻 Installing Python

Data and File Manipulation

  • 💻 Read from Files

  • 💻 Python Data to JSON

  • 💻 Python Data to YAML

  • 💻 Pandas dataframes with Excel, csv, json, HTML and beyond

  • 💻 CSV data - Standard Library and pandas dataframes

  • 💻 List and Dict Modeling

APIs and HTTP

  • 💻 Interacting with APIs

  • 💻 APIs, pip, and requests

  • 💻 Restful Open APIS with Standard Library

  • 💻 Restful Open APIS with requests

Troubleshooting

  • 💻 Python for Network Captures and Wireshark

  • 💻 Examining Network Capture pcaps Files with termshark

ICMP (ping)

  • 💻 Performing ICMP Checks

Automating Email

  • 💻 Automating SMTP

  • 💻 Exploring Network Interfaces

Front End Web Calls

  • 💻 Web Scraping Data with Beautiful Soup

  • 💬 Automating Front-End Web Forms

Connecting with Python

  • 💻 Python Telnet Client

  • 💬 Introducing Paramiko

  • 💻 Paramiko and SFTP

  • 💻 Automating Commands Across SSH

Python and Network Devices

  • 💬 Python to Cisco NX-OS

  • 💻 Netmiko for Router and Switch Automation

  • 💻 Lightweight Database Interactions

NAPALM

  • 💻 Getting Switch Configuration with NAPALM

  • 💻 Switch Validation and NAPALM

Building APIs

  • 💻 Building APIs with Python Flask

  • 💻 Intro to Building Django Apps

CI/CD Automation

  • 💬 Introduction to CI CD with GitLab

  • 💻 Running Python in a Container

  • 💬 CI CD with Python, Webhooks, and GitLab Runner

  • 💻 Lifecycling a Python App with GitLab

Testing

  • 💻 Testing Code with PyTest

Optimizing Code for Automation

  • 💻 Using Argparse

  • 💻 Controlling run time with Environmental Variables

  • 💻 Python and Regular Expression for Searching

Concurrency

  • 💻 Automating HTTP Requests

  • 💻 Automating HTTP Requests with Async IO

Enterprise Applications

  • 💻 VMWare NSX Automation

  • 💻 scapy - Network Traffic as Code

Ansible Primer (Optional)

  • 💻 Introduction to Ansible and Playbooks

  • 💻 Retrieving Switch Config with Ansible

  • 💻 Using Agnostic Networking Modules

Appendix

  • 💬 Glossary

Continuing Education

  • 💻 Continuing Education

  • 💬 Curriculum Path: Developer

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