Introduction If you've automated the generation of your network configuration, chances are you've used Jinja. If not, Jinja is a templating engine used to generate text-based files from data input. Below shows a quick example: One feature that Jinja provides is filters. Filters allow you to

Today I want to share with you a small tip on how to dynamically set class attributes within Python. Before we do, I just want to point out that this is actually something I learnt a few months back after going through the Nornir code base. Therefore true kudos goes

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The other day I was asked: How do I get usernames and passwords into my Python scripts? For example to use with Netmiko, Scrapli or Nornir. The simple answer to this is the library python-dotenv. Whats python-dotenv? python-dotenv is a library that loads your environment variables from a .env file.

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Today I want to talk about something that I have been enjoying and adopting more and more over the last 6 months, which is using the code as a form of documentation/source of truth for open-source projects/code. What do I mean by this? By this, I simply mean,

A common question that arises in the area of network automation is: What’s the difference between Ansible and Nornir? I mean, they are both frameworks that can manage and automate groups of network devices, right? They are also both built on top of Python. So what is the difference

Today I want to share with you a small tip that I regularly use to prevent having to write multiple else-if statements within my code. You may now be asking, what's wrong with writing multiple else-if statements? Well, to be fair, nothing. However, I will show you an

Learn the basics of Nornir and why it is a great alternative to Ansible for network automation.