Network automation demystified

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

Network automation training course details

Those wishing to learn about the tools of network
automation.

Introduction to data communications.

1 day

Programming and automating networks, networks
and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for
network operations. Unit testing. Hype vs reality.
Benefits and features.

Traditional methods, SNMP. Netflow and xflow.
Traditional automation. Streaming telemetry.
Event driven automation. gRPC, Protocol buffers.

Catch 22 and initial configuration. ZTP, POAP.
Traditional automation. TFTP. Ansible vs the rest
(chef, salt, puppet). Jinja2 and templating. How
ansible works.

Programming languages. Linux, shell scripting.
Python vs the rest. Off box vs on box automation.

Sockets pysnmp, ncclient, paramiko, netmiko,
pyez, NAPALM.

Proprietary APIs, CLI, NETCONF, RETCONF.
YANG, XML, YAML, JSON.

Git, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and others.