Top 5 Python Libraries for Network Automation

Within the past few years, network automation has seen an explosion in popularity. As a result, there seems to be an ever-increasing supply of tools available to the modern engineer to help implement automated network configuration and change management. While having such a wide and diverse array of tooling available is undoubtedly of great benefit to the community, it can certainly feel a little bit overwhelming and even intimidating.

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[himanshunahak]

00:35 Netmiko
01:47 Napalm
02:45 Genie
04:38 NCClient
05:40 Requests

[gusschlichtmann]

I like this guy, notice he never stops smiling! Keep it up!

[adamlicht]

Thanks for all you do, John. This is a fantastic list, and absolutely essential tools for anyone interested in automation. Another library worth exploring for parsing is TextFSM..I find their templating language really easy to extend for specific use-cases. NAPALM really exponentially increases the power of anything you attach it to. Its great with Ansible, but it is an absolute monster with Nornir. Your videos really helped me get started with the Nornir framework to the point where I was porting projects from Ansible to it within days of first picking it up. Keep up the great work; I'll be tuning in!

[melvinoxl]

Ive been able to automate network devices thanks to john

[jairusan]

Awesome, concise, and right to the point, thanks for providing the initial and perhaps most important tools needed for new (like me) and experienced network engineers focusing on working with network automation. I am wondering if you know of someplace online where other network engineers share their python3 network-scripts? will be really useful to learn them, update them, and re-use them, even, collaborate and upload them, that way other engineers can use it in labs and testing environments. Thank you in advance for all the great information you share. Keep the great work!

[kwiatriot]

Great review of these libraries, you are the automation ninja! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[القارئالمصريعمروعزت]

What needs vendor support in python libraries? Isn't ssh open , is there a difference in encoding

[johnlefeve]

*sigh*
Okay, fine. enough dilly-dallying... it’s time to learn python 🐍

[muhammad.rafi]

you probably would have suggested scrapli too f you were making video in 2021 :) true right ?