Mastering Python networking : your one-stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and test-driven development

Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright and Credits
 Packt Upsell
 Contributors
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python
 An overview of the internet 
 Servers, hosts, and network components
 The rise of data centers
 Enterprise data centers
 Cloud data centers
 Edge data centers
 The OSI model
 Client-server model
 Network protocol suites
 The transmission control protocol
 Functions and characteristics of TCP
 TCP messages and data transfer
 User datagram protocol
 The internet protocol
 The IP NAT and security
 IP routing concepts
 Python language overview. Python versionsOperating system
 Running a Python program
 Python built-in types
 The None type
 Numerics
 Sequences
 Mapping
 Sets
 Python operators
 Python control flow tools
 Python functions
 Python classes
 Python modules and packages
 Summary
 Chapter 2: Low-Level Network Device Interactions
 The challenges of the CLI
 Constructing a virtual lab
 Cisco VIRL
 VIRL tips
 Cisco DevNet and dCloud
 GNS3
 Python Pexpect library
 Pexpect installation
 Pexpect overview
 Our first Pexpect program
 More Pexpect features
 Pexpect and SSH
 Putting things together for Pexpect. The Python Paramiko libraryInstallation of Paramiko
 Paramiko overview
 Our first Paramiko program
 More Paramiko features
 Paramiko for servers
 Putting things together for Paramiko
 Looking ahead
 Downsides of Pexpect and Paramiko compared to other tools
 Idempotent network device interaction
 Bad automation speeds bad things up
 Summary
 Chapter 3: APIs and Intent-Driven Networking
 Infrastructure as code
 Intent-Driven Networking
 Screen scraping versus API structured output
 Data modeling for infrastructure as code
 The Cisco API and ACI
 Cisco NX-API. Lab software installation and device preparationNX-API examples
 The Cisco and YANG models
 The Cisco ACI
 The Python API for Juniper networks
 Juniper and NETCONF
 Device preparation
 Juniper NETCONF examples
 Juniper PyEZ for developers
 Installation and preparation
 PyEZ examples
 The Arista Python API
 Arista eAPI management
 The eAPI preparation
 eAPI examples
 The Arista Pyeapi library
 Pyeapi installation
 Pyeapi examples
 Vendor-neutral libraries
 Summary
 Chapter 4: The Python Automation Framework --
Ansible Basics
 A more declarative framework
 A quick Ansible example. The control node installationRunning different versions of Ansible from source
 Lab setup
 Your first Ansible playbook
 The public key authorization
 The inventory file
 Our first playbook
 The advantages of Ansible
 Agentless
 Idempotent
 Simple and extensible
 Network vendor support
 The Ansible architecture
 YAML
 Inventories
 Variables
 Templates with Jinja2
 Ansible networking modules
 Local connections and facts
 Provider arguments
 The Ansible Cisco example
 Ansible 2.5 connection example
 The Ansible Juniper example
 The Ansible Arista example
 Summary. Chapter 5: The Python Automation Framework --
Beyond Basics.