Network automation training course description
This course concentrates on the technical side of tools
and languages for network DevOps rather than the soft
skills. These tools include Python, Ansible, Git and
NAPALM
By the end of the course delegates should be able to
recognise the tools that they can use to automate their
networks and be able to use the knowledge gained to
feel confident approaching network automation.
What will you learn
Describe network DevOps.
Choose network automation tools.
Explain the role of various network automation
technologies including:
Python
Ansible
Git
NAPALM
Network automation training course details
Who will benefit:
Those wishing to learn about the tools of network
automation.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to data communications.
Duration
1 day
Network automation training course contents
What is DevOps and network automation
Programming and automating networks, networks
and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for
network operations. Unit testing. Hype vs reality.
Benefits and features.
Network monitoring and troubleshooting
Traditional methods, SNMP. Netflow and xflow.
Traditional automation. Streaming telemetry.
Event driven automation. gRPC, Protocol buffers.
Configuration management
Catch 22 and initial configuration. ZTP, POAP.
Traditional automation. TFTP. Ansible vs the rest
(chef, salt, puppet). Jinja2 and templating. How
ansible works.
Network programmability
Programming languages. Linux, shell scripting.
Python vs the rest. Off box vs on box automation.
Python network libraries
Sockets pysnmp, ncclient, paramiko, netmiko,
pyez, NAPALM.
APIs
Proprietary APIs, CLI, NETCONF, RETCONF.
YANG, XML, YAML, JSON.
Other tools
Git, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and others.