Thread by @rickjdon

If you are looking to #automate your #network here are a few tools you should check out (and why!) ...
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🔥 SuzieQ (Network Observability/Testing) - Great for NetOps due to its CLI, and also provides the ability to see your network at a previous point in time. #networkautomation suzieq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ 👇👇👇

🔥 Batfish (Network Analysis/Pre-Testing) - Validate your network before deploying. Great for performing offline impact analysis (via snapshot forking + differential reachability). #networkautomation batfish.org

🔥 Scrapli (CLI Interaction via Python) - Working with network device CLIs via Python. Provides config management features, plus its quick due to its SSH2 and AsyncIO support. #networkautomation github.com/carlmontanari/… 👇👇👇

🔥 Netmiko (CLI Interfaction via Python) - Working with network devices over CLI/Python. Supports more devices then Scrapli, though doesnt include the config management features and SSH2 support. #networkautomation github.com/ktbyers/netmiko 👇👇👇

🔥 Rich Inspect (Prettify Terminal Output) - Use inspect to learn more about Python and what's in objects etc etc. Great learning tool. #networkautomation github.com/Textualize/rich 👇👇👇

🔥 pyATS Dq (Python Dict Parser) - Great tool for pulling info from large dictionary blobs. pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/genie-do… #networkautomation 👇👇👇

🔥 Nornir (Config Management via Python) - Great pure #Python alternative to Ansible. Its quick, and easy to use. nornir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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🔥 Black and isort (Python Formatters) - Standardize your code formatting with these defacto tools ...
- github.com/psf/black
- pycqa.github.io/isort/

Hope you`ve found this useful! 🙂 #networkautomation