Network automation demystified

Description

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

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.