Rick Donato

UIs are great. They make it easy for non-cli folk to drive your tooling, as they don't require the installation of any packages by the client (other than a browser) or any know-how on how to drive a Linux shell. However, under the hood, when building a UI,

In this post, we will cover some best practices that will help you write good-quality Python code. By this, I mean code that: * It is easy to read * Clear in its intent * Aligns to the Python naming standards Let's dive in … Naming - Casing and Grammar When writing

Today I want to speak about – Python’s Quest for Simplicity. Specifically around Python tooling, where we will look at the past, present, and future of a typical Python project. Past First, let's step back in time (a few years) and look at a traditional Python project ... This

Introduction If you've ever had to deal with firewalls and complex ACLs, you'll know that they can be tricky beasts from time to time! Whether it's having to generate your firewall configuration for different vendors or wading through the jungle of nested object groups

In this post, I'm going to provide a TL;DR to Poetry for Python package and virtual environment management. Pip and Virtual Environments If you've worked with Python for network automation, chances are that you've used Pip and virtual environments. If not, and you

As we near the end of 2022, we would like to share with you Packet Coders top projects and tools of the year. GitHub - cansarigol/pdbr: pdb + Rich librarypdb + Rich library. Contribute to cansarigol/pdbr development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubcansarigolPoetry - Python dependency management and packaging

When it comes to version control and using Git, one thing I've always struggled with is knowing how to write good clean Git commit messages. For example, should I use title case or prefix the message with commit type (fix, feature etc.). The list goes on ... ! For those

Today I'm going to show you an inbuilt debugger tool that you can use in Ansible to help troubleshoot your tasks and playbooks. As per the Ansible docs, the debugger tool allows you to: … fix errors during execution instead of editing your Playbook and running it again to

Today we are going to quickly cover the Linux return code and its use in the world of network automation. What is a Return Code? A return code (also known as an exit code) is: a numeric value that is returned by a process (to its parent process) when terminating