NETWORK AUTOMATION TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course concentrates on the technical side of tools and languages for
network DevOps rather than the soft skills. These tools include Python, Ansible,
Git and NAPALM By the end of the course delegates should be able to recognise
the tools that they can use to automate their networks and be able to use the
knowledge gained to feel confident approaching network automation.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
* Describe network DevOps.
* Choose network automation tools.
* Explain the role of various network automation technologies including:
Python
Ansible
Git
NAPALM
NETWORK AUTOMATION TRAINING COURSE DETAILS
* Who will benefit:
Those wishing to learn about the tools of network automation.
* Prerequisites:
Introduction to data communications.
* Duration
1 day
NETWORK AUTOMATION TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS
* What is DevOps and network automation
Programming and automating networks, networks and clouds, AWS, OpenStack,
SDN, DevOps for network operations. Unit testing. Hype vs reality. Benefits
and features.
* Network monitoring and troubleshooting
Traditional methods, SNMP. Netflow and xflow. Traditional automation.
Streaming telemetry. Event driven automation. gRPC, Protocol buffers.
* Configuration management
Catch 22 and initial configuration. ZTP, POAP. Traditional automation. TFTP.
Ansible vs the rest (chef, salt, puppet). Jinja2 and templating. How ansible
works.
* Network programmability
Programming languages. Linux, shell scripting. Python vs the rest. Off box vs
on box automation.
* Python network libraries
Sockets pysnmp, ncclient, paramiko, netmiko, pyez, NAPALM.
* APIs
Proprietary APIs, CLI, NETCONF, RETCONF. YANG, XML, YAML, JSON.
* Other tools
Git, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and others.