Updates from Packet Coders Before we dive in just a few updates on whats happening in the Packet Coders membership ... 🔥 Batfish Deep-dive tech session recording added to our library. 🔥 Schema validation tech session recording added to our library. 🔥 RegEx 101 tech session recording added to our library. 🔥 Go for networking

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.

Network Automation Newsletter. Edition 018 - April2022

For those of you who are new to SuzieQ, its an: open-source platform that polls your network stores the data in a DB, allowing you to query and analyse your data in lots of cool ways. Think troubleshooting and config compliance testing. One of the biggest releases to date has

Network Automation Newsletter. Edition 017 - March2022

After presenting the latest Packet Coders tech session in our membership last night, around Python OOP (recording here) there was one feature that I wanted to share with you, that is super useful for preventing code duplication when working with Python classes. This feature (technically a Python method) is called

Network Automation Newsletter. Edition 016 - Feb2022