Mastering Python Networking

Key Features

• Build the skills to perform all networking tasks using Python with ease
• Use Python for Network Device Automation, DevOps, and Software Defined Networking
• Practical guide to networking with Python

Book Description

You will begin with a review of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite and to refresh the core elements of the Python language. Next you will start using Python to automate network devices and achieve all that you want from your network. You will then move to using Python for DevOps where you will be securing networks, monitoring networks, and building network services. In the last module, you will use Python for SDN, where you will use Python with OpenFlow, OpenStack , OpenDayLight, and NFV. Finally you will use everything you have learned so far in this book to construct a Python-based migration plan to go from legacy to a scalable SDN-based network.

By the end of the book you will have all the skills required to perform complex network-related tasks with Python

What you will learn

• Review of all the fundamentals of Python and TCP/IP suite
• Use Python to execute commands when the device does not support the API or programmatic interaction with the device
• Implement automation techniques by integrating Python with Cisco, Juniper, and and Arista EAPI
• Integrate Ansible using Python to control Cisco, Juniper, and Arista networks
• Achieve Network security with Python
• Build high-performing web services with Python
• Construct a Python-based migration plan from legacy to a scalable SDN-based network.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python Language
Chapter 2. Low-Level Network Device Interactions
Chapter 3. API and Intent-Driven Networking
Chapter 4. The Python Automation Framework – Ansible Basics
Chapter 5. The Python Automation Framework – Ansible Advance Topics
Chapter 6. Network Security with Python
Chapter 7. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 1
Chapter 8. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 2
Chapter 9. Building Network Web Services with Python
Chapter 10. OpenFlow Basics
Chapter 11. Advanced OpenFlow Topics
Chapter 12. OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV
Chapter 13. Hybrid SDN