In Case You Missed it
Last month saw the release of Packet Coders (previously PacketFlow). The TL;DR...
- Packet Coders is a Network Automation Learning Platform.
- We provide courses (such as Batfish, pyATS, Netmiko), 24x7 labs, code repositories and a private community to learn network automation through.
Announcing - Packet Coders!
It is with great pleasure that today I can announce the release of Packet Coders (previously PacketFlow). What is Packet Coders?Packet Coders is a Network Automation Learning Platform providing networkautomation courses through code, labs and community.Our courses are built by engineers, for en…
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As part of the release of Packet Coders, we released our latest course - Network Testing with Cisco pyATS. Click below to see the full course contents:
Network Testing with Cisco pyATS
About This CourseLearn how to automate the testing of your network infrastructure with Cisco’sopen-source tool - Cisco pyATS. In this course, you will learn, * The key components of pyATS. * How to parse your network state into structured data using Genie. * Take snapshots of your netwo…
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As I'm sure you now know, I couldn't have gone the whole month without posting about Batfish. Here is a TL;DR blog post around cleaning up ACLs with Batfish.
Reduce ACL Clutter with Batfish
In my previous life as a firewall admin [https://www.fir3net.com/Firewalls/], Ifound that there were two key things to maintaining a healthy firewall ACL.First, ensure it passes the necessary traffic! Secondly, ensure that the ACL wascluttered with any unnecessary ACL entries. By making sure our …
Open-source Updates
Introducing Netutils - Network to Code
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Release 3.3.0 · napalm-automation/napalm
NETCONF driver for IOS-XROver the last 18 months Cisco has been working on implementing a NETCONF-based driver for the IOS-XR platforms. The new driver is now available in the core NAPALM library,...
Network Analysis
Uncovering Configuration and Behavior Drift — pybatfish 0.36.0 documentation
Observability
Promscale 0.4: Drawing inspiration from Cortex to rewrite support for Prometheus high-availability
Introducing Promscale 0.4 with new capabilities including better support for Prometheus high-availability, support for multi-tenancy, improved user permissions (using role-based access control), and more.
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Parsing
pemistahl/grex
A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases - pemistahl/grex
xlwings/jsondiff
Diff JSON and JSON-like structures in Python. Contribute to xlwings/jsondiff development by creating an account on GitHub.