Nornir (Python Network Automation) | Introduction to Automating Spreadsheets!

In this video we explore the use of Nornir and Genie to automate the creation of your spreadsheets! A real timesaver!
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[IPvZero]

Links to my new Network Automation training at CBT Nuggets:

UNDERSTAND THE NORNIR AUTOMATION FRAMEWORK


AUTOMATE NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS WITH NORNIR


UNDERSTAND AUTOMATION SECURITY

[ArtemKotik-jl]

Great video! I had a case like in your video to gather some information from about 1000 devices. There was a problem, not all info written by with open scructure. So I used nornir plugin write_file and it works really great.
from nornir.plugins.tasks.files import write_file
task.run(task=write_file, content=data, filename=file_path, append=True)

[noiseless]

Please speak slower, I like your videos very much, but as a non native english speaker your talking speed combined with your accent it is difficult to follow .

[Nadine-kzou]

if I want to add a column of SNMP if it is v3 or v2 how to do it ?

[wiecaszekpawel]

Would love to see how to approach this when you work with nested data.

[preetkochar]

I have only seen a couple of your nornir videos and you got yourself a new subscriber. Wonderful tutorials. I hope to see a lot of nornir vids while i am exploring nornir myself too.

Suggestion:-
Instead of using csv module, if you use pandas module, you can simply save df = pd.Dataframe(pass dictionary here ) and df.to_excel or df.to_csv.. this will create a excel sheet with 1 line of code.

[preetkochar]

Something that i would like to see is a video where you cover how to pass "enable" / secret passwords for netmiko and napalm ( via yaml files as well as programatically )... This is a topic that i have seen a lot of mixed and unclear responses.

[muhammad.rafi]

nice one dude, I have been following all of your video, i just noticed it does update the sheet name too, so I am wondering, is it possible to fill multiple sheets within the same spreadsheet ?

[linkflap]

Friendly comment for YT algorithm. Good that you make more videos to spread Nornir. It must overwhelm Ansible, just need more time.

[karicallegra]

Another great video brotha! Keep it up. Just FYI you may want to include the links to the videos you're referencing in time with your reference of them- i.e. when you called out the genie parser video have the link pop up in the information (or at min put them in the description). Might help drive up some views!!

[wiecaszekpawel]

Awesome tutorial again! Gonna lab this up now :)