Название: Python Networking Solutions Guide: Leverage the Power of Python to Automate and Maintain your Network Environment
Автор: Tolga Koca
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2023
Страниц: 395
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

Automate Your Network Configuration, Management, and Operation Tasks with Python.

Key Features
- Get familiar with the basics of network automation.
- Understand how to automate various network devices like Routers, Switches, Servers, and Firewalls.
- Learn how to create customized scripts to manage multiple devices using Python.

Description
Python is the de-facto standard for automated network operations nowadays. With the power of Python, network devices can be automated easily with basic scripts. Written in direct and intuitive language, this practical guide will help you to automate your network with Python.

In this book, you will understand what network automation is precisely. The book will help you get familiar with the basics of the Python language. It will also help you learn how to monitor, maintain, and deploy configurations in network and system devices such as routers, switches, servers, and storage. The book will explain how to automate cloud infrastructures like AWS (Amazon Web Services) with Python.

This book shows the Python programming language's importance and power to automate network devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, system devices like Linux servers, and cloud devices like the AWS platform. It shows to manage and configure thousands of devices with a single script, saving time and preventing faults. This book covers network automation with Python specifically for Network, System, and DevOps engineers. It explains the Python basics from scratch with various features and modules. It covers the most helpful connection methods to login to multiple devices concurrently and manages them with scripts. It explains creating a customized network automation tool with many scripts.

This book is divided into 11 chapters. It covers network automation and Python basics, connecting devices with Python, managing devices by scripts, creating a network automation tool, etc.

By the end of the book, you will be able to decrease your routine workload and improve productivity by automating your networking tasks.

What you will learn
- Get familiar and work with Python libraries like Paramiko and Netmiko.
- Write and deploy scripts to configure network devices such as Firewalls, Routers, and Switches.
- Learn how to combine all micro scripts in the main Python script.
- Create, configure, operate, and maintain AWS services through Python scripts using Boto3.

Who this book is for
This book is specially designed for system administrators, infrastructure automation engineers, IT engineers, and network engineers to leverage Python’s potential as an automation tool to centrally manage routers, servers, and cloud infrastructures in an organizational network and beyond.