Course Name : Network Automation With Python Power Bootcamp

Duration : 5 Days

Course Index:

Day 1: Introduction to Python

Language Overview

• > Why Python is popular on many areas?
• > Big Data and Database Management
• > Data Science and Analysis
• > Machine Learning (ML)
• > Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• > Network Programming and System Automation

Standard Data Types

• > The Python Standard Library
• > Built-in Functions and Modules
• > Basic Operators and Type Casting
• > Numeric Data Types and Functions
• > String Data Type and Functions

Flow Control

• > if-else
• > For loop
• > While loop
• > break and continue statements

Functions

• > Function Definition
• > Scope Rules
• > Recursion
• > Random Module Functions

Lists and Tuples

• > Immutable vs Mutable Types
• > List and Tuple Functions
• > Comparison
• > Conversion
• > Multi-dimensional Lists and Tuples

Dictionaries

• > Key and Value Pairs
• > Dictionary Functions
• > Sorting and Converting

External Libraries

• > Important Libraries
• > How to Install and Import
• > Examples

Basic File Operations

• > Open a File with r/w/a/b Modes
• > File Operations
• > File and Directory Methods

Exception Handling

• > Exception Types
• > Multiple Exceptions
• > try and except block
• > Finally expression

Day 2: Intent Based Networking & Model Driven Automation

• Introduction to DevOps
• Evolution of IT
• Industry 4.0
• IoT
• Why Python is so importrant ?
• Network Programming & Network Automation
• What is NetDevOps ?
• What is DevNet ?
• Why Network Programming is so importrant ?
• How do we make Network Programming?
• Traditional Networks
• Software Defined Networking
• Network Functions Virtualization
• Intent Based Networking
• Dev Net & Intent Based Networking
• Model Driven Automation & Artificial Intelligence
• Multi Vendor Network Programming & Automation
• API Types & API Data Formats
• JSON, XML, YAML
• Parsing API With Postman (Colorado Population API, News API, Open Weather API)
• Parsing API With Python Programming
• Parsing API Data Formats With Python(Game of Thrones JSON, Star Wars JSON)
• Programming with Rest API Requests Library: NASA API)
• How to Create Your Own API by Parsing HTML Data: Weather Condition API

Day 3: Introduction to Network Automation

• -Git Bash
• Version Control With Git
• Git Branching
• Use Git For Version Control Lab
• -Paramiko Library
• -How Paramiko Works ?
• -Paramiko SSH & SFTP from Windows Host to Linux Host
• -Configuring Network Devices with Paramiko:
• -How to Decoding Binary Data
• How to create Terminal Length
• -Paramiko Remote Guest Shell
• -How to create your own Custom Paramiko Library
• -Network Automation with Netmiko:
• -Why we need Netmiko?
• -What is the difference of Netmiko?
• -Configure Multiple Network Devices With Netmiko
• -Netmiko With JSON
• -Netmiko With TextFSM
• -Getting Serial Numbers From Multiple Network Devices by Textfsm
• -List Comprehensive
• -Advanced Mirroring: How to copy configuration from source device to target device

Day 4: Network Automation With API

• -Rest API: Socket Programming: Sending Data to Web Servers & Receiving Data From Web Servers
• -Use Python To Enhance CLI Commands via Guest Shell
• -Configure and Verify Using NX-API Through Rest API With Postman and SandBox
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• Configure and Verify Using NX-API Through Rest API With Python Programming
• -NetConf & Rest Conf
• -Spider Port: Gathering Port Statistics Project
• -Port Management With Python
• -Convert Yaml Files with Jinja Templates For Configuration Management
• -How to Create Custom NX-API Library

Day 5: Confuguration Management & Application Development With Docker

Infrastructure Automation With Ansible

• -What is Ansible
• -How Ansible Works
• -Infrastructure Automation With Ansible Playbooks
• -Managing Ansible inventory
• -Using modules and writing playbooks
• -Managing Services and Linux servers with Ansible
• -Use Ansible with NX-OS
• -Using Ansible to collect data from Nexus environment
• -Configuring Nexus environments with Ansible
• -Configuring Network Parameters Using Ansible:
• -Running scripts with Ansible
• -Configuring networks using Ansible

Application Development With Docker:

• -Software & Application Development-Waterfall versus Agile
• -Software Test Types
• -Construct A Python Unit Test Lab
• -Introduction to DevOps
• -Kubernetes Architecture
• -Docker Architecture
• -Docker on Linux Mac Windows
• -How Docker Works
• -Docker Installation Lab
• -Interpret A Dockerfile Lab