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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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Python Tip - How to Dynamically Assign Attributes

Today I want to share with you a small tip on how to dynamically set class attributes within Python. Before we do, I just want to point out that this

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How to Inject Credentials into Your Python Scripts

The other day I was asked: How do I get usernames and passwords into my Python scripts? For example to use with Netmiko, Scrapli or Nornir. The simple answer to

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Using Code as a Source of Truth

Today I want to talk about something that I have been enjoying and adopting more and more over the last 6 months, which is using the code as a form

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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,

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How to Speed Up Pytest

I have to admit, after adding the final test for checking the Nornir course code repo, it felt good. 56 tests in total. Job done! Well, kind of. After performing

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Nornir 101

Learn the basics of Nornir and why it is a great alternative to Ansible for network automation.

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