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During one of our NetBox training sessions, one of our students asked: Can I restrict a user within NetBox to only see devices for a given site? The short answer is yes. However, getting there involves a good understanding of the NetBox permission feature set, so today, we will look

A question that I find is asked a lot in the community is: How do I use Scrapli with legacy devices? For example, devices (such as IOS-XE) that use the older Ciphers by default. i.e. when connecting to the device, you receive an error such as: read : b'

What is JSONata? JSONata is a lightweight query and transformation language for JSON; it provides: * Parsing: Easily pull the data from your payloads with minimal syntax. * Built-in functions: Manipulate your data, for example, sum and join data without moving from JSONata into another language (such as Python). * Path Transversal: Navigate

One of the big announcements from Redhat recently is the tech preview of Ansible Lightspeed, a new AI service around easing the process of creating your Ansible code. What is Ansible Lightspeed? Ansible Lightspeed is a generative AI tool designed to help with the creation of Ansible content. It is

VSCode has become the de facto code editor of choice. One of VSCodes biggest features is its marketplace for extensions. Today we will share 15 essential VSCode extensions to help you supercharge your network automation. Let's go ... Ansible - Visual Studio MarketplaceExtension for Visual Studio Code - Ansible

UIs are great. They make it easy for non-cli folk to drive your tooling, as they don't require the installation of any packages by the client (other than a browser) or any know-how on how to drive a Linux shell. However, under the hood, when building a UI,

In this post, we will cover some best practices that will help you write good-quality Python code. By this, I mean code that: * It is easy to read * Clear in its intent * Aligns to the Python naming standards Let's dive in … Naming - Casing and Grammar When writing

Today I want to speak about – Python’s Quest for Simplicity. Specifically around Python tooling, where we will look at the past, present, and future of a typical Python project. Past First, let's step back in time (a few years) and look at a traditional Python project ... This

Introduction If you've ever had to deal with firewalls and complex ACLs, you'll know that they can be tricky beasts from time to time! Whether it's having to generate your firewall configuration for different vendors or wading through the jungle of nested object groups