Thanks for all you do, John. This is a fantastic list, and absolutely essential tools for anyone interested in automation. Another library worth exploring for parsing is TextFSM..I find their templating language really easy to extend for specific use-cases. NAPALM really exponentially increases the power of anything you attach it to. Its great with Ansible, but it is an absolute monster with Nornir. Your videos really helped me get started with the Nornir framework to the point where I was porting projects from Ansible to it within days of first picking it up. Keep up the great work; I'll be tuning in!
Hey, Adam. Great input. I definitely agree - TextFSM is a big favourite of mine too.TextFSM, Genie and TTP - those are my 3 for getting stuctured data from the CLI. Really love to see people expanding their automation skills into the Nornir framework - it's outrageously powerful :) -John
Awesome, concise, and right to the point, thanks for providing the initial and perhaps most important tools needed for new (like me) and experienced network engineers focusing on working with network automation. I am wondering if you know of someplace online where other network engineers share their python3 network-scripts? will be really useful to learn them, update them, and re-use them, even, collaborate and upload them, that way other engineers can use it in labs and testing environments. Thank you in advance for all the great information you share. Keep the great work!
Thanks, Jair! Really appreciate your kind words. In terms of sharing code, a good place to do that is the Cisco Devnet Code Exchange. People submit there code and it's all searchable you can find it here: developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/ If you just search for something like "ansible" or "nornir" you'll find a bunch of examples that have been added (including a few of my own). Hope you find it helpful :) -John
00:35 Netmiko
01:47 Napalm
02:45 Genie
04:38 NCClient
05:40 Requests
That's the ones :)
I like this guy, notice he never stops smiling! Keep it up!
Thanks for all you do, John. This is a fantastic list, and absolutely essential tools for anyone interested in automation. Another library worth exploring for parsing is TextFSM..I find their templating language really easy to extend for specific use-cases. NAPALM really exponentially increases the power of anything you attach it to. Its great with Ansible, but it is an absolute monster with Nornir. Your videos really helped me get started with the Nornir framework to the point where I was porting projects from Ansible to it within days of first picking it up. Keep up the great work; I'll be tuning in!
Hey, Adam. Great input. I definitely agree - TextFSM is a big favourite of mine too.TextFSM, Genie and TTP - those are my 3 for getting stuctured data from the CLI. Really love to see people expanding their automation skills into the Nornir framework - it's outrageously powerful :)
-John
@@IPvZero Nornir is definitely the road less traveled, but worth the journey, keep up the great work!!
@@adamlicht6614 100% agree, Adam! Thanks again man :)
Awesome, concise, and right to the point, thanks for providing the initial and perhaps most important tools needed for new (like me) and experienced network engineers focusing on working with network automation. I am wondering if you know of someplace online where other network engineers share their python3 network-scripts? will be really useful to learn them, update them, and re-use them, even, collaborate and upload them, that way other engineers can use it in labs and testing environments. Thank you in advance for all the great information you share. Keep the great work!
Thanks, Jair! Really appreciate your kind words. In terms of sharing code, a good place to do that is the Cisco Devnet Code Exchange. People submit there code and it's all searchable you can find it here: developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/
If you just search for something like "ansible" or "nornir" you'll find a bunch of examples that have been added (including a few of my own).
Hope you find it helpful :)
-John
@@IPvZero I will definitely check it out, Thank you!
@@IPvZero Is there a discord?
Great review of these libraries, you are the automation ninja! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Thanks, Wayne!! :)
Ive been able to automate network devices thanks to john
Interesting video, Thanks John!
Thanks, Michiel! Great to get your feedback :)
-John
Lovely video, thanks for the share!
Thanks for watching, Davide!
Thanks, Davide! Really appreciate getting your feedback!
-John
What needs vendor support in python libraries? Isn't ssh open , is there a difference in encoding
*sigh*
Okay, fine. enough dilly-dallying... it’s time to learn python 🐍
Haha you'll enjoy it, John :)
you probably would have suggested scrapli too f you were making video in 2021 :) true right ?