Claudia de Luna

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How much network automation stuff should I learn as a network engineer? & Passing the DevNet Associates Exam

It is important to note that the question is not "should I learn any?" but rather "how much should I learn?". The new Cisco DevNet Certifications help us answer that question. Let me share my journey to that conclusion. In early February I decided to take the DevNet Associates Exam. I scheduled it for the READ MORE

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Configuration Creation with Nornir

I tend to assess automation tools in four different contexts which is, in fact, a very general networking and automation workflow: Discovery How easy is it to find out about the network, document its configuration (the configuration of a device itself) and state (show commands "snapshotting" its state)? Configuration Creation How easy is it to READ MORE

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Nornir – A New Network Automation Framework

nornir (formerly brigade) - A new network automation framework Before getting started, let me say that I'm big fan of Ansible. It is one of my go-to automation frameworks. Having said that, there have been use cases where I've run into some of the limitations of Ansible and to be fair some of those limitations may READ MORE

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Pandas for Network Engineers (Who doesn’t love Pandas? )

The module not the mammal! My original title for this article was going to be *Decomposing Pandas* as a follow on to *Decomposing Data Structures* but I was advised against that name. Go figure. One of the things I love most about Python is that its always waiting for me to get just a little READ MORE

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