Introduction to Python Network Automation: The first journey, Chapter 10 Cisco IOS XE Upgrade Demo

This video is a preview demo of Apress Book, "Introduction to Python Network Automation: The first journey" by Brendan Choi. [Release ETA: Early 2021]

The video demonstrates how Chapter 10 lab should work to upgrade multiple Cisco IOS XE routers in a lab environment.

While reading chapters 1 to 9, the readers of the book starts to learn Python from scratch, then slowly build their skillsets moving through different IT domains, including Python basics, Linux Administration basics, Virtualization basics, Networking (CCNA level) basics, Regular Expressions for Python Network Automation and build-up the right foundation to reach intermediate to Advanced level of Python scripting for Network Automation. At the end of the book, the readers of this book will be able to build their own personal lab using a single PC connected to the internet, no routers or switches required to learn Python network Automation. Learn and develop a sophisticated Python Automation and Orchestration scripts to tackle various Networking tasks at work, your imagination is your friend. Chapter 10 lab (final lab) is the pinnacle of the this book and demonstrates how Python can be used to help Network, Security and System Engineering Teams to automate selective easy to sophisticated tasks at work.

* Please note, this book is hevily biased towards Cisco technologies but the basic concepts taught in this book can be applied to any vendor networking environment. Also, with Python scripts you can write, customize and achieve more when used in conjunction with Ansible, pyATS, Nornir and other Automation tools.