The other day I was made aware (thanks to Dinesh Dutt) of a small tip when working with and iterating over Pandas DataFrames. If you`ve used Python and tools like Batfish (course here) or Suzieq (course here) to automate your network, then you may be familiar with DataFrames. However,

You may (or may not) have seen the release of the Batfish 101 webinar yesterday. Where we covered: ✅ What is Batfish? ✅ What can Batfish do? ✅ How to setup Batfish ✅ Demo - Snapshots, panda DataFrames (TL;DR), along with how to analyse network config and control-plane state (OSPF/BGP). Well, I

What is Batfish? For those of you who are new to Batfish, it's a multi-vendor analysis tool that models your network, in short, this allows us to analyse the network and perform queries that we`ve never been able to do before using traditional methods (i.e pings,

Don't get me wrong Pip is a great package manager but there is one thing that had always bugged me, that was having all the dependencies within a single file. For example having all of your development dependencies (linters, formators etc) and your application dependencies (Scrapli, Nornir etc)

Part 2 of the diff`ing the network series. Learn how to compare Python dictionaries using jsondiff.

I`m pleased to announce the release of our new course - Network Configuration with Scrapli. The course comes with: * Over 1000 lines of code examples and scripts. * 24x7 multi-vendor labs to hone your Scrapli skills. * 16 x Lessons of Scrapli deep-dive training. Join Packet Coders Today What is Scrapli?

A look at the different tools that we can use to perform a differential comparison—ranging from difflib for text block comparison to the more advanced diffsync.

In my previous life as a firewall admin, I found that there were two key things to maintaining a healthy firewall ACL. First, ensure it passes the necessary traffic! Secondly, ensure that the ACL was cluttered with any unnecessary ACL entries. By making sure our ACL's were clutter-free

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