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Mastering Python Networking. Your one stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and SDN

Mastering Python Networking. Your one stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and SDN

Eric Chou

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This book begins with a review of the TCP/ IP protocol suite and a refresher of the core elements of the Python language. Next, you will start using Python and supported libraries to automate network tasks from the current major network vendors. We will look at automating traditional network devices based on the command-line interface, as well as newer devices with API support, with hands-on labs. We will then learn the concepts and practical use cases of the Ansible framework in order to achieve your network goals.

We will then move on to using Python for DevOps, starting with using open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Then, we will focus on network monitoring and visualization. We will learn how to retrieve network information using a polling mechanism, ?ow-based monitoring, and visualizing the data programmatically. Next, we will learn how to use the Python framework to build your own customized network web services.

In the last module, you will use Python for SDN, where you will use a Python-based controller with OpenFlow in a hands-on lab to learn its concepts and applications. We will compare and contrast OpenFlow, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV. Finally, you will use everything you’ve learned in the book to construct a migration plan to go from a legacy to a scalable SDN-based network.
  • 1. Review of TCP / IP Protocol Suite and Python Language
  • 2. Low Level Network Device Interactions
  • 3. API and Intent-Driven Networking
  • 4. Python Automation Framework - Ansible Basics
  • 5. Advance Python Automation Framework - Ansible Advanced 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
  • Title: Mastering Python Networking. Your one stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and SDN
  • Author: Eric Chou
  • Original title: Mastering Python Networking. Your one stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and SDN
  • ISBN: 9781784397623, 9781784397623
  • Date of issue: 2017-06-28
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15l4
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing