My journey with Network & Cloud Automation
Defining infrastructure as code(IaC) is one of the easiest ways to manage the whole infrastructure and you’ll probably like it more if you are not a fan of using GUI to manage stuff. In this beginner’s guide to understanding terraform for cloud automation, let’s see what this buzzword really is all about Terraform is a…
We have already seen how to work with and manipulate CSV files with python for network automation. This post is going to talk about ways you can manipulate excel for network automation using python. There are a lot of modules available that can interact with excel programmatically using python. To name a few:- xlrd –…
In this post, we are going to cover the very basics of Netmiko. This is a beginner-level introduction on how to automate networking devices using python netmiko in which we will talk about how to install and set up SSH to network devices using python. Also how to write a basic script for interacting with devices…
Network Automation is the new buzz word which essentially means use of software and technology to reduce human effort to perform the tasks that we have been conventionally doing thus far. You could read up on the definitions and different perspectives of major players in this industry like CISCO JUNIPER VMWARE REDHAT Here in this…
In this post we will parse the output of show version to fetch most common details required from it. We will try to learn step by step how to capture information like version, hostname, hardware model, uptime etc. You can use the concept to fetch any other detail you would like from any other command…
Assume you want to extract below details from the output of “show version” from multiple devices at once. This post is going to talk about how to parse data using python Using this method you can extract anything you want from any other output too. For instance, you can extract all BGP neighbour info from…
As a network engineer we need to deal with thousands of devices at once and this is the essence of network automation. The code snippet below will give you the entry point into how to read files in bulk with python for network engineers. Please note, this is not the only way of doing things…