Suresh Vina

Overview Not all of us Network Engineers have a dedicated network configuration backup tool for various reasons. Paid solutions like Orion are excellent but come with a high cost. There are solid open-source alternatives like Rancid or Oxidized, but setting them up can be a bit complex. Or maybe you

Overview As network engineers, we are very much used to making configuration changes via the CLI, something we've relied on since the start of our networking careers. However, in the past few years, there has been a push towards network automation, with tools like Ansible and Python becoming

Introduction to PyeAPI The Python Client for eAPI (pyeapi) is a native Python library wrapper around Arista EOS eAPI. It provides a set of Python language bindings for configuring Arista devices. In this blog post, we will look at how to install pyeapi, some prerequisites and some examples. The pyeapi

Introduction In this blog post, we’re going to explore Jinja2, an incredibly versatile tool that’s very useful for network automation. At its core, Jinja2 is a template engine. You can think of it as a stencil in arts and crafts. Just as you might use a stencil to

Introduction to TextFSM In this blog post, we will look at TextFSM, a tool that helps parse the raw data (semi-structured) we often get from network devices. If you've ever tried to use TextFSM documentation, you might know it can be a bit confusing. Therefore in this post,