This course caters to network engineers aiming to enhance both their Python proficiency and network automation skills. Delving deeper into key areas such as netmiko, Nornir, and ncclient, we also focus on automating network testing and validation. Participants gain greater confidence working with Python functions, classes, objects, and error handling. The course additionally introduces more libraries like Scrapli, TTP, pyATS, Genie, pybatfish, and Suzieq, which cover parsing strategies, automation testing, validation, network analysis, observability, and telemetry. The curriculum also encompasses concurrency techniques.
Network engineers.
5 days
CLI, NETCONF, RESTCONF, structured versus
unstructured data, gNMI and when to use which.
PEP 8. Naming conventions. Packages, modules,
Classes and methods. The scrapli library. Netmiko
versus scrapli.
Hands on: scrapli, Dictionaries
versus Regular Expressions.
Writing your own modules, containers versus
packages, virtual environments. Best practices,
calling functions, writing your own functions.
Parameters, arguments. Named arguments,
dictionaries as arguments. Builtins. Docstrings.
Main. __name__, __main__ . Program arguments.
Hands on: Getting interfaces, showing interface
status using Netmiko and functions. Using
dictionaries as arguments. Writing your own
modules.
Turning unstructured data into structured data.
textfsm, PyATS Genie parser, NAPALM getters,
Template Text Parser.
Hands on: Genie parser,
TTP. Accessing structured data with lists and
dictionaries.
Python classes in Genie, PyEZ and others .
Hands on: studying network automation classes,
objects, methods and attributes.
Nornir tasks. Nornir results, Nornir functions,
Nornir plugins. Nornir processors. YANG, YANG
models, pyang. NETCONF hello. Capabilities.
Schemas. Filters. Subtrees. XPATH. Exploring
available YANG data models. NETCONF and
network wide transactions. Asserting NETCONF
capabilities. Configuration types. Locking
configurations, commits. NETCONF data stores.
Netconf-console. RESTCONF differences from
NETCONF. URI construction. Postman. More XML
and JSON. Git and configuration versions.
Hands
on: Nornir and Jinja2. Exploring available models,
NETCONF filters. Using postman.
Context handlers, try, assert, logging, pdb, pytest,
unit testing, chatgpt.
Hands on: Writing code with
each of the error handling methods, investigating
what happens on an error. Use chatgpt to debug
your code.
Testing and validation. pyATS, Genie. Testbed
file. Genie parse, genie learn, genie diff. Genie
conf, Genie ops, Genie SDK, Genie harness.
Xpresso.
Hands on: Using Genie for state
comparisons of the network.
Batfish, pybatfish, configuration analysis,
analysing routing, analysing ACLs. Pandas.
Pandas dataframe. Filtering and selecting values
of interest.
Hands on: Use Batfish to analyse
network snapshots, find network adjacencies, flow
path analysis.
Suzieq, using docker, using as a package. Sqpoller, suzieq-gui, suzieq-cli, sq-rest-server.
Namespaces and seeing devices, network state
and Asserts. Time based analysis, snapshots and
changes.
Hands on: Suzieq: Gathering data from
the network, analysing data from the network.
Network state assertion.
gRPC, gNMI. CAP, GET, SET. Subscriptions.
Model Driven telemetry.
Hands on: Analysing
telemetry data with Python.
asyncio, threads, processes. Nornir concurrency.
Scrapli and netmiko concurrency.
Hands on:
Multiple SSH connections to devices at same
time. Scarpli asyncio.
"Excellent presentation - very good course structure."
"Great course, learned a lot, and do it again if technology changed."
This structured course uses Instructor Led Training to provide the best possible learning experience. Small class sizes ensure students benefit from our engaging and interactive style of teaching with delegates encouraged to ask questions throughout the course. Quizzes follow each major section allowing checking of learning. Hands on sessions are used throughout to allow delegates to consolidate their new skills.