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Rick Donato

Rick Donato is the creator and founder of Packet Coders. He has a passion for networking and automation, along with a strong love of coffee!

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pyATS Mock Devices

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: What are pyATS mock devices. Why are mock devices useful. How to create

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GitOps 101

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: Git/GitHub fundamentals. The beginning DevOps and CICD. What is GitOps? The unedited

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ContainerLab 101

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: What is ContainerLab? The main components within ContainerLab. How to create your first

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Schema Validation /w Cerberus

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: What is schema validation? Schema validation in network automation. How to build your

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Batfish Deep Dive

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: Batfish TL;DR intro. Batfish Ansible. Filtering parsing errors. Exposing ACL internal models.

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Network Automation Tech Sessions

Welcome to our library of network automation tech sessions.

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Grafana and Prometheus 101

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: An introduction to Network Telemetry/Monitoring. What is Prometheus? Basics of PromQL How

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Ansible vs Nornir

A common question that arises in the area of network automation is: What’s the difference between Ansible and Nornir? I mean, they are both frameworks that can manage and

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Improve Your Python Code With This Quick Else-if Tip

Today I want to share with you a small tip that I regularly use to prevent having to write multiple else-if statements within my code. You may now be asking,

Rick Donato

pyATS Mock Devices

GitOps 101

ContainerLab 101

Schema Validation /w Cerberus

Batfish Deep Dive

Network Automation Tech Sessions

Grafana and Prometheus 101

Ansible vs Nornir

Improve Your Python Code With This Quick Else-if Tip

Using Code as a Source of Truth

Ansible vs Nornir

Improve Your Python Code With This Quick Else-if Tip

How to Speed Up Pytest

Nornir 101

Top 3 Features in SuzieQ 0.16.0

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