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Napalm Getting Started
Napalm installation and basic usage.Napalm Getting Started
Napalm is a network automation library written in python that abstracts the differences between libraries such as Juniper's pyez and Arista's pyeapi bringing a common interface across many API's. Napalm is well supported in the network community, originally started by David Barroso and Elisa...Install Python 2.7.13 and 3.6.2 on Centos 7 Minimal
Install python 2.7.13 and 3.6.2 on Centos 7 minimal server.Install Python 2.7.13 and 3.6.2 on Centos 7 Minimal
Centos 7 minimal ships with python 2.7.5 and using such an old python version can cause problems when using some python packages for network automation. This post describes how to install python 2.7.13 and python 3.6.2 on a Centos 7 minimal server. Install Python Install required YUM...TextFSM Getting Started
TextFSM installation and basic usage.TextFSM Getting Started
Textfsm is a text parsing library written in python to turn plain text into structured data. Originally created by Google, the project seemed largely abandoned until recently being added to github and receiving a small update. This post will show how to extract interesting data from the...Cisco Nexus 9000v Vagrant Box Install
How to install a Cisco Nexus 9000v Vagrant box.Cisco Nexus 9000v Vagrant Box Install
This blog covers how to install Cisco Nexus 9K boxes for use with Vagrant. Great news.. if you have followed my other posts around creating Vagrant boxes from Cisco post and post images, this will not be quite as involved. Cisco has provided a Nexus vagrant box for download from...Jinja2 For Network Engineers
Using Jinja2 to create network device configurations.Jinja2 For Network Engineers
Jinja2 is a templating language built in python and loosely based on the Django templating language. Jinja2 is used in many projects as a templating engine with some notable examples: Ansible, Salt and Flask. Jinja2 aims to implement some of the most common features of python right into...Ansible Overview
Ansible is a 'radically simple', open source, IT automation platform. Architecture Control Node The Ansible control node is the central point of management for managed nodes. Configuration is pushed to the managed nodes from the control node. Managed Node A managed node...continue reading