Practical Network Programming in Python (PNPP)

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

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