When people ask author Eric Chou how to get started with network automation, he advises them to start small and celebrate small victories. In his book, Mastering Python Networking, from Packt ...

Python is the most common language for network automation, but it can't do the job easily all by itself. Fortunately, several motivated individuals have created libraries that handle a lot of the ...

Use the Python Netmiko module to automate switches, routers and firewalls from multiple vendors. I frequently find myself in the position of confronting "hostile" networks. By hostile, I mean that ...

Automating an enterprise’s switch upgrade using Python and open-source tools saved time, money, and human errors compared to doing it manually. Automation can make a big difference in repetitive ...

“Don’t spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you’ve never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work.” – Al Sweigart, author of Automate the ...