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Automating Firewall ACL's with Aerleon

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

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An Intro to Python Poetry

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

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Our Top Recommended Network Automation Projects of 2022

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

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TL;DR - How to Write Good Git Commit Messages

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

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An Intro into Ansible's Built-In Debugger

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

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The Linux Return Code

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

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Network Testing 101 /w Cisco pyATS (Recording + Code)

Thanks to everyone who attended the -- Network Testing 101 /w Cisco pyATS -- this week. For those of you who couldn't make it, you can check out the recording

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An Introduction to Nornir Inspect

Nornir Inspect is a tool, developed by Packet Coders to help learn, and troubleshoot the config management framework - Nornir.

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How to Use Jinja Custom Filters within Nornir

Introduction If you've automated the generation of your network configuration, chances are you've used Jinja. If not, Jinja is a templating engine used to generate text-based files from data input.

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