Description

Advanced Network Automation with Cisco and Python Course

The Advanced Network Automation with Cisco and Python Course is designed for network engineers and IT professionals who want to automate and optimize network processes, minimize manual tasks, and improve scalability across Cisco networks. This hands-on course teaches you how to leverage Python scripting and Cisco’s APIs to develop advanced automation solutions for network management and configuration. Whether you’re aiming to streamline daily operations or enable dynamic, policy-driven networking, this course provides the tools and techniques needed to succeed.

Course Overview

This course covers both foundational and advanced concepts in network automation. Starting with Python basics as applied to networking, you will quickly progress to more complex topics such as API integration with Cisco devices, network device configuration, monitoring automation, and troubleshooting. You’ll work on real-world automation projects using Cisco’s DevNet tools and learn to apply network programmability in a Cisco environment to drive efficiency.

Key Learning Outcomes

• This Advanced Network Automation with Cisco and Python training covers Nornir topics including:
  • Advanced filtering
  • Handling connections to devices
  • Inspecting complex structures
  • Using ipdb with Nornir
  • Transforming inventory data

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is ideal for:

• Network engineers seeking to enhance their automation skills
• IT professionals looking to streamline network management processes
• Network administrators interested in Cisco DevNet and API integration
• Python developers focusing on network automation and Cisco environments

This Advanced Network Automation with Cisco and Python training is considered professional-level Cisco training, which means it was designed for network engineers. This Nornir skills course is designed for network engineers with three to five years of experience with network automation and CI/CD tools and practices.

New or aspiring network engineers. If you’re just starting out as a network engineer, watch out: advanced network automation and CI/CD automation is — frankly — advanced. But if you know your organization is interested in pursuing CI/CD, or is struggling with implementing network automation tools, you could boost your career by investing early in understanding how Cisco and Nornir work together to make CI/CD automation a reality.

Experienced network engineers. The obvious benefits of Nornir’s backwards compatibility and small codebase will appeal to network engineers with several years of experience. If you’ve been thinking about network automation for some time, you’ll probably appreciate what Nornir does to improve code quality: linting, code style, static type checking, and unit testing. Nornir and Cisco have advanced CI/CD tools and resources, you can learn about them with this training.

Course Features

• This intermediate Advanced Network Automation with Cisco and Python prepares network engineers to incorporate Nornir’s inventory abstraction and concurrent task execution into your network CI/CD automation environment.Technologies around network automation and continuous integration and delivery/deployment continue to improve, and make it all the more possible to build, test and merge code seamlessly. But at the same time, many of the tools and languages that are made to monitor, maintain and, ultimately, release code into the wild are so complicated and nuanced that learning the tools themselves is a harder task than just implementing and maintaining CI/CD practices in the first place.

  After finishing this Advanced Network Automation with Cisco and Python training, you’ll know how to incorporate Nornir’s inventory abstraction and concurrent task execution into your network CI/CD automation environment.

  For supervisors, this Cisco training can be used to onboard new network engineers, curated into individual or team training plans, or as a Cisco reference resource.

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Additional Resources

• Cisco DevNet – Access Cisco’s developer resources for network automation and programmability.
• Python Official Site – Explore Python resources and documentation.
• Netmiko Documentation – Learn more about this popular library for SSH automation in Python.

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