Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

Network Engineering is one of the last technology areas to undergo a revolution. That revolution involves abstraction (generally known as software-defined) and automation. While the knowledge you have around networking is essential, today, a well-rounded network engineer must also be able to, at a minimum, execute scripts and optimally create simple scripts to help perform the day-to-day tasks of a network engineer with efficiency, a higher degree of accuracy, and repeatability.

The landscape of automation is broad and can be daunting and confusing. This course will provide a starting foundation in network automation. In this course, you will be introduced to some of the more popular tools and see them in action so that you can be better equipped to select the tools that will work for you.

By the end of this course, you will have the base set up to pursue your career in network automation.

What You Will Learn

  • Revision Control including Git and GitHub Basics
  • Python “at speed” refresher
  • Options for your virtual lab
  • Understand complex data structures
  • Options for handling credentials securely
  • Introduction to Regular Expressions and Parsing output from network devices
  • How to set up your environment?
  • How to create and execute python scripts to gather information from network devices?
  • How to create and execute python scripts to change the configuration of network devices?
  • How to use an existing repository of scripts?
  • How to create a repository of your own and share it with others?
  • How to use python scripts to report on network devices and draw basic diagrams for documentation?

Program Curriculum

  • Introduction to Revision Control Systems and Git/GitHub
  • Creating Your First Git Repository
  • Saving Your Repository to GitHub
  • Cloning an Existing Repository
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Editors vs IDEs
  • Using a Text Editor
  • Using an IDE
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Virtual Environments
  • Objects and Namespaces
  • Modules
  • Language Basics
  • Script Basics

  • Lab Options
  • Lab Intro and Setup
  • Lab Intro and Setup Vyos

  • The Importance of Device Inventory
  • How Frameworks Can Help?
  • Simple Inventory
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Overview of Credentials Management
  • Sample Script
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Introduction to Parsing
  • Regular Expressions
  • TextFSM
  • TTP (Template Text Parser)
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • Overview
  • Connecting with Netmiko – Part 1 Jupyter
  • Connecting with Netmiko – Part 2 Production Style in Vscode
  • Connecting with Netmiko – Refactoring
  • Connecting with Scrapli
  • Chapter 8 Quiz

  • Introduction to Jinja2
  • Generate a Configuration from a Jinja2 Template
  • Apply a Configuration with Netmiko
  • Apply a Configuration with Scrapli
  • Chapter 9 Quiz

  • Generating an "As Built" Document of your Network
  • Diagrams
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Instructor

Claudia de Luna

Claudia de Luna began her career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ultimately becoming the Technical Manager of the Network Engineering Team and the Lab's representative to NASA on networking. Looking to broaden her experience, she left JPL and worked for a variety of companies in different verticals including Biotech and Financial before becoming an independent consultant supporting the State of California Department of Corrections, Prison Healthcare, and Technology. With that multi-vertical experience, she joined a Cisco Global Gold Partner working to design and deliver networks and data centres and so started her pursuit of Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies and Automation. She returned to independent consulting in 2018 in order to fully focus on Network Automation. She currently leads automation at EIA, a small boutique consulting firm specializing in Global Infrastructure Deployments (IT, OT, IoT) and Automation for Fortune 100 Companies. Claudia holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Aeronautics and Astronautics) from Stanford University and currently lives in the Bay Area.

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