Network Automation: Simplifying Infrastructure Management
This Learning Path focuses on network automation using Ansible and Python, equipping you with the skills to streamline and manage network operations efficiently. You'll start with the basics of Python scripting for networking, including libraries like Netmiko and Paramiko, and advance to leveraging Ansible for automated configuration management. Through hands-on labs, you'll gain practical experience in automating tasks such as device configuration, validation, and network state monitoring.
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Learning Path Flow:
Lab Architecture:
The Python for Networking Lab provides a hands-on environment to master network programming and automation using Python. The lab includes a pre-configured Python environment and virtual network devices. Through structured modules, the student will gain practical experience in socket programming, packet manipulation with Scapy, HTTP automation, secure network management with Paramiko, device management with Netmiko, network automation with NAPALM and Netbox, and much more.
Lab Objectives:
- Develop a deeper understanding of Python programming to support network automation and management tasks.
- Gain a solid understanding of networking concepts such as IP addresses, protocols, and network devices.
- Learn to create sockets, send and receive data, and develop common socket applications using Python.
- Learn to automate HTTP interactions by making requests, handling responses, and building REST API clients with Python.
- Understand SSH and use the Paramiko library to connect to network devices, execute commands, and manage configurations securely.
- Learn to use Netbox for network inventory management and automate network tasks in conjunction with NAPALM.
- Build comprehensive expertise in network automation by leveraging Python programming and specialized libraries for network management and automation tasks.
Lab Architecture:
This hands-on training offers an immersive environment centered on Ansible, allowing students to master Ansible from basic commands on a single host to deploying advanced playbooks on more complex infrastructures.
Lab Objectives:
- Gain a foundational understanding of Ansible and its role in infrastructure management, including the benefits of using Ansible for managing snowflake servers.
- Learn how to gather and use facts in Ansible to collect information about managed nodes for more informed automation tasks.
- Understand the architecture and design of Ansible, and how it operates to automate tasks.
- Develop skills to configure local infrastructure using SSH and Ad-Hoc Ansible commands, and understand the internal workings of Ansible.
- Gain proficiency in writing and executing Ansible playbooks using VSCODE and YAML, incorporating the use of variables and fact-gathering for dynamic and efficient automation.
- Develop troubleshooting skills to debug playbooks, handle errors and failures, and avoid common pitfalls in Ansible usage.
- Gain expertise in automating network management tasks, including opening ports, configuring firewalls, installing services, and much more using Ansible.
- Develop skills to implement file-based backup and disaster recovery solutions using Ansible.
- Gain knowledge on how to set up and manage the Ansible inventory file to organize and describe your servers.
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