🐍 Python DX Tip: Save time when running scripts by using `uv run` to automatically activate your virtual environment. Example below 👇 ❌ Manually activating the virtual environment source .venv/bin/activate ./nr_backup_configs.py ✅ Automatically activate the virtual environment before running the script uv run nr_backup_configs.py Until next

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 One key component of Ansible is its inventory. Ansible’s inventory lets you organise and define the targets you will automate. Whether you're automating a small network or a large-scale deployment, a solid inventory setup—and knowing how to work with it—makes all the difference. In

pyATS Tip: Use Genie Diff to compare structured data and easily identify differences. It works with dictionaries, including structured output from Genie Parse and Genie Learn. Below is an example of using Genie Diff to compare the results of a Genie Parse command: from genie.utils.diff import Diff from

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🐍 Python Tip: Speed up your Python package installs by up to 100x using uv, a drop-in replacement for pip. # Using pip ❌ pip install -r requirements.txt pip install netmiko # Using uv - faster by up to 100x ✅ pip install uv uv pip install -r requirements.txt uv pip install netmiko

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

Git Tip: git checkout allows you to restore a single file to a previous version without affecting the rest of your project. For example: git checkout--. Full example below: # View the commit history of a specific file. git log -- path/to/file # Restore a specific file to its state

Git Tip: Skip --set-upstream! Set the upstream branch automatically using the push.default config. Heres an example: # Before: Manually setting upstream git push --set-upstream origin apples # Configuration to set upstream automatically git config --global push.default current # After: Just push, and Git sets the upstream automatically git push