With "Mastering Python Network Automation," you can streamline container orchestration, configuration management, and resilient networking with Python and its libraries, allowing you to emerge as a skilled network engineer or a strong DevOps professional.

From the ground up, this guide walks readers through setting up a network automation lab using the NS3 network simulator and Python programming. This includes the installation of NS3, as well as python libraries like nornir, paramiko, netmiko, and PyEZ, as well as the configuration of ports, hosts, and servers. This book will teach you the skills to become a proficient automation developer who can test and fix any bugs in automation scripts. This book examines the emergence of the service mesh as a solution to the problems associated with service-to-service communication over time.

Key Learnings

• Use of Istio for cluster traffic management, traffic routing, and service mesh
• implementation.
• Utilizing Cilium and Calico to solve pod networking and automate network policy
• and workload routing.
• Monitoring and managing Kubernetes clusters with etcd and HAProxy load
• balancers and container storage.
• Establishing network automation lab with tools like NS3 emulator, Python, Virtual
• Environment, and VS Code.
• Establishing connectivity between hosts, port connectivity, SSH connectivity,
• python libraries, NS3, and network encryption.

Table of Content

1. Python Essentials for Networks
2. File Handling and Modules in Python
3. Preparing Network Automation Lab
4. Configuring Libraries and Lab Components
5. Code, Test & Validate Network Automation
6. Automation of Configuration Management
7. Managing Docker and Container Networks
8. Orchestrating Container & Workloads
9. Pod Networking
10. Implementing Service Mesh

"Mastering Go Network Administration" is a structured beginning for network administrators looking to improve network efficiency, scalability, and security. This book provides a one-stop solution for all of your network administration needs, with comprehensive coverage of automation, security, containerization, monitoring, and performance testing.

Beginning with the fundamentals of creating a network automation lab with the EVENG network simulator and the Go programming language, readers will learn the step-by-step process of installing EVE-NG, followed by the importance of service mesh in automation and how it can simplify network operations.

The book delves deeply into critical topics such as deploying ingress controllers and implementing service mesh with Linkerd. Readers will learn about container-native storage, container storage management with Docker, and automated SSL certificates, firewall configuration, and network policies. Monitoring and performance tuning are also covered in the book, including how to monitor container performance and automatically roll out updates. The book covers a series of performance testing strategies like load testing, stress testing, and scalability testing. It shows readers how to find performance bottlenecks and optimise their network with the help of tools like Vegeta and Apache JMeter through the use of real-world examples.

Key Learnings

• Setting up an EVE-NG network simulator, VIM IDE, kubeadm, and a comprehensive network automation lab to improve network efficiency, scalability, and security.
• Configuring ports, hosts, and servers using Go scripting to streamline network automation.
• Writing, testing, and validating network automation scripts to ensure smooth and reliable network administration.
• Building Docker images, running containers, and managing container deployments for efficient containerization.
• Automating load balancing, firewall configuration, and Kubernetes network policies for seamless network management.
• Working with popular tools such as Puppet, Zookeeper, Traefik, Envoy, and various Go networking packages.
• Automating SSL setup, container storage, container performance monitoring, and rolling updates.
• Using powerful load testing tools like Vegeta and Apache JMeter for efficient load testing, stress testing, and scalability testing to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks.

Table of Content

1. Go Essentials for Networks
2. Setting Up Network Automation Environment
3. Configuring Modern Networks
4. Write, Test and Validate Automation Scripts
5. Automation of Configuration Management
6. Networking with Container and Docker
7. Orchestrating Containers and Automating Workloads
8. Automate SSL, Container-native Storage and Performance
9. Kubernetes Automation
10. Service Mesh, Firewall and Network Policies
11. Network Performance Testing

Audience

If you're a network administrator who wants to level up your game, "Mastering Go Network administration" is the book for you. This book will help you become a more efficient, effective, and confident network administrator by providing clear explanations, practical examples, and comprehensive coverage.

This book is an in-depth guide for network administrators, cloud architects, and container and Kubernetes administrators who want to learn how to automate networking tasks in C++. From setting up a network automation environment to automating configuration management and working with containers and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, the book covers a wide range of topics.

The first section of the book covers the fundamentals of automation scripting and testing. Readers will learn how to create successful automation scripts and test them to ensure they perform properly. The next section describes how to set up a network automation environment. This includes configuring network devices, servers, and other components required for automation. The readers will learn about the various protocols as well as how to use Ansible to automate the configuration management of these devices. It covers containerization and container orchestration systems such as Docker and Kubernetes. Readers will learn how to use tools such as Docker Compose and Kubernetes to automate workload management and deployment.

The final section of the book focuses on cloud networking. The readers will learn how to handle network resources in cloud systems such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Readers get to work with tools and services available for cloud networking automation, best practices and how to use them in their regular cloud networking operations.

Key Learnings

• Setting up GNS3, Eclipse IDE, cpp-netlib, Boost, OpenSSL, and zlib libraries
• Configure the ports, hosts, and servers using C++ scripting
• Writing, testing, and validating network automation scripts in both, test and production environment
• Building docker images, running containers, and managing container deployments
• Using Ansible for server provisioning, automated system identification and managing auto-updates
• Automating container scheduling, service discovery, and load balancing
• Setting up Kubernetes cluster, Nginx ingress, implementing service mesh, and automating firewall configuration
• Working with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Networking Services for Cloud Automation

Table of Content

1. C++ Basics for Networks
2. C++ Advanced for Networks
3. Preparing Network Automation Setup
4. Script, Test, and Validate Network Automation
5. Automating Configuration Management
6. Working with Docker and Containers
7. Container Orchestration and Workload Automation
8. Kubernetes Automation
9. Administering Google Cloud Networking
10. Administering Azure Networking

Audience

This is a fantastic desk reference for network administrators, cloud architects, DevOps engineers, and automation engineers wishing to automate networking tasks with C++. It is a must-have book for anyone who wants to keep ahead of the curve in the field of networking automation.