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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

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 below. You can also find all of the code from the session within the following GitHub repo: GitHub

Nornir Inspect is a tool, developed by Packet Coders to help learn, and troubleshoot the config management framework - 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. Below shows a quick example: One feature that Jinja provides is filters. Filters allow you to

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 is actually something I learnt a few months back after going through the Nornir code base. Therefore true kudos goes

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 this is the library python-dotenv. Whats python-dotenv? python-dotenv is a library that loads your environment variables from a .env file.

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 of documentation/source of truth for open-source projects/code. What do I mean by this? By this, I simply mean,