Mastering Python Networking: Your one-stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and Test-Driven Development

by Eric Chou

Master the art of using Python for a diverse range of network engineering tasks Networks in your infrastructure set the foundation for how your application can be deployed, maintained, and serviced. Python is the ideal language for network engineers to explore tools that were previously available to systems engineers and application developers. In this second edition of Mastering Python Networking, you’ll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from traditional network engineers to network developers ready for the next-generation of networks. This book begins by reviewing the basics of Python and teaches you how Python can interact with both legacy and API-enabled network devices. As you make your way through the chapters, you will then learn to leverage high-level Python packages and frameworks to perform network engineering tasks for automation, monitoring, management, and enhanced security. In the concluding chapters, you will use Jenkins for continuous network integration as well as testing tools to verify your network. By the end of this book, you will be able to perform all networking tasks with ease using Python. Mastering Python Networking is for network engineers and programmers who want to use Python for networking. Basic familiarity with Python programming and networking-related concepts such as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) will be useful.

468 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2018

Reviews

[Venkat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

[Laura Alonso · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as good as the Network Programmability book. It's too all over the place - perhaps it tries to cover everyone's use cases and yet I don't feel I have enough info about my own.

[Andres Sanchez · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had some tasks at work which were a good fit to be automated and bought this book to have a quick jump-start at it. The content is a great starting point, every section has examples that include a simple task to automate and the procedure to configure your VM in order to do so; it also gives a basic theoretical knowledge of each tool to be used. I used it a couple of months ago and believe I only had issues with one Juniper example, all the others worked well. I do not rate it for five stars since I believe the book is slightly over-priced. I was expecting more complex examples for the price paid for the book.