Packet Coders Newsletter #016 - Feb2022

Network Automation Newsletter. Edition 016 - Feb2022
Packet Coders Newsletter #016 - Feb2022

In Case You Missed it

Python Type Checking 101
If you are new to Python, you may have heard of type checking and type hinting, and wondered what they are all about. Within this post we will provide a 101 to explain what type checking and type hinting are and the problem they look to solve. Let’s dive in,
Batfish Behaviour TL;DR - Impact Analysis and Named References
Today I want to share with you some behaviour that I learnt the other day that you might find helpful when working with Batfish. This behaviour is based upon the following: When working with impact analysis and using layer1 topologies in Batfish. Don’t use named references within your reachability…
3 Tips When Beginning Network Automation
Over the years, I’ve learned a few things when it comes to automation, not so much related to coding but general tips and methods that I’ve found helpful when building out successful network automation projects. Here they are: Workflow When it comes to automating a manual process, a good approach

New Course Released

Automating Python Code Quality
Learn how to Automate Python Code Quality through open-source tooling, to save you and your team time.
New course released

SuzieQ Bootcamp Released

Network Observability with SuzieQ - 1 Day Bootcamp
Get up to speed FAST with our Packet Coders instructor-led bootcamps!
New SuzieQ 1-day Bootcamp released

Opensource Projects

Release 0.16.0 · netenglabs/suzieq
Using network observability to operate and design healthier networks - Release 0.16.0 · netenglabs/suzieq
SuzieQ 0.16.0 released - includes Netbox, Palo Alto and remote DB support.
GitHub - Textualize/rich-cli: Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal
Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal - GitHub - Textualize/rich-cli: Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal
A great new tool from the Textualize camp. You can now Richify your data via the CLI.
GitHub - thatmattlove/oui: MAC Address CLI Toolkit
MAC Address CLI Toolkit. Contribute to thatmattlove/oui development by creating an account on GitHub.
Small MAC lookup tool in Go. 
GitHub - carlmontanari/boxen: put your network operating systems in a box!
put your network operating systems in a box! Contribute to carlmontanari/boxen development by creating an account on GitHub.
New project for containerizing your NOS VMs.
AI Doc Writer for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, and Java - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - The AI powered documentation writer
VSCode extension for generating comments using AI.

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