Network Automation Hangout

Guest: Clay Curtis (@ccurtis584)

Topics:

- pyATS

- Network testing with pytest

- Programmatic software upgrades (in the podcast there was a reference to nts/ntc upgrade, it is actually pyntc - https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc)

- New major releases of Flask and Jinja

- Python web frameworks + recommended resources for every popular framework

- Work-life balance

Recorded live on 2021-05-13

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Topics:

- Carl's progress on scrapli-go

- Cloud compute options for applications

- Message queues for network automation applications

- Remote work for network automation engineers

Recorded live on 2021-05-06

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Topics:

- How Dmitry started with Python

- Suggested tools and libraries for a specific use-case (question from the audience)

- YANG tooling

- Vendor automation solutions vs in-house automation

- Python on Windows: WSL / VM / Visual Studio Code

- Google's SDN controller: Orion (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi21-ferguson.pdf)

Recorded live on 2021-04-29

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Panelists: Jeremy Stretch (@jstretch85), Roman Dodin (@ntdvps), John McGovern (@IPvZero), Carl Montanari (@carlrmontanari) and Dmitry Figol (@dmfigol)

Topics:

- NetBox as a Source of Truth: roadmap, scope, RDBMS/git

- Problems with Open Source: expectations, licenses, contributions, sponsorships

- Network collective gNMI episode: https://networkcollective.com/2021/04/gnmi/

- Python type annotation problem in 3.10 (PEP 563/649): https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/issues/2678

Recorded live on 2021-04-22

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Panelists: Roman Dodin (@ntdvps), John McGovern (@IPvZero), Carl Montanari (@carlrmontanari) and Dmitry Figol (@dmfigol)

Topics:

- containerlab

- scrapli. Will scrapli-go exist?

- Python asyncio

- Python vs Go

- Ansible vs Python

- collaboration in network automation

- should I learn Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence?

Recorded live on 2021-04-11

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