Rust for Network Programming and Automation is a pragmatic guide that trains you through the Rust to design networks and begin with automating network administration. The book introduces you to the powerful libraries and commands of Rust that are essential for designing, administering and automating networks. You will learn how to use Rust's networking libraries like tokio, mio and rust-async to create scalable and efficient network applications.

The book provides a wide range of practical examples and use-cases, which help to simplify complex coding concepts and ensure that you understand the netwprk programming in-depth. You will discover how to establish network protocols like TCP and IP networks, run packet and network analysis, measure performance indicators and set up monitoring alerts and notifications. The book is an excellent resource for network engineers and administrators who want to gain a deep understanding of Rust programming for networking.

Key Learnings

• Use Rust to automate network configuration, deployment, and maintenance tasks
• Capture and inspect packets, decode protocols, and analyze network traffic
• Set up monitoring alerts, notifications, and manage network infrastructure
• Create scripts and applications that automate repetitive network tasks
• Monitor network performance indicators like latency, throughput, and packet loss
• Understand Rust's syntax, data types, control structures, and functions
• Make use of Rust's networking libraries like Tokio, mio and rust-async to create networking programs
• Establish network connections and handle data transmission between different devic

Table of Content

1. Basics of Network Automation
2. Essentials of Linux for Networks
3. Rust Basics for Networks
4. Core Rust for Networks
5. Rust Commands for Networks
6. Programming & Designing Networks
7. Establishing & Managing Network Protocols
8. Packet & Network Analysis
9. Network Performance Monitoring

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

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.