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PT25519
Summary
This 5-day course balances lecture and lab exercises to ensure students can apply key Python programming knowledge and skills required to address network automation challenges in a multi-vendor infrastructure.
Prerequisites
Network engineers participating in this class should have a basic understanding of Python or other scripting/programming languages and working experience with enterprise network infrastructure equipment. Application developers participating in this class should have a basic understanding of networking equipment and their functions on the network. Recommended pre-course reading or training for network engineers include: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and Introduction to Python Programming courses.
Pre-course work for Application Developers include ENCOR level knowledge or equivalent: ENCOR
Duration
5 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience
This course is designed for network architects, network engineers and application developers that have experience designing, building and maintaining enterprise and/or service provider networks or building network automation applications.
Topics
- Introduction to Python and Programming Languages
- IDE – Intro to PyCharm Community Edition
- Data-types in Python
- Flow control
- Network Programming Library Overview
- Modeling Network Configuration CLI in python
- Configuration Management
- Auditing and State Validation
- ˜Show command’ parsing
- Device Capabilities
- Device Real-time Interaction and debugging
- Intro to device orchestration
- Environment and command line variables and Python
- Working with a Datacenter Design
- Multi Device and Dependency Management – Sequencing
- Full configuration management
- Gitlab – CICD Introduction
- RobotFramework