TCP/IP foundation for engineers

Network automation demystified

A 1 day training course

Description Key outcomes

This course concentrates on the technical side of tools By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
and languages for network DevOps rather than the soft
 Describe network DevOps.
skills. These tools include Python, Ansible, Git and
NAPALM  Choose network automation tools.
By the end of the course delegates should be able to  Explain the role of various network automation
recognise the tools that they can use to automate their technologies including:
networks and be able to use the knowledge gained to Python
feel confident approaching network automation. ansible
git
NAPALM.

Training approach Details

This structured course uses Instructor Led Training to Who will benefit?
provide the best possible learning experience. Small Those wishing to learn about the tools of network
class sizes ensure students benefit from our engaging automation.
and interactive style of teaching with delegates Prerequisites
encouraged to ask questions throughout the course. Introduction to data communications.
Quizzes follow each major section allowing checking of Duration: 1 day
learning. Hands on sessions are used throughout to
allow delegates to consolidate their new skills.
Overal rating:

Generic training Small class sizes Hands On training Our courseware Customise your course

Generic training We limit our maximum The majority of our We write our own Please contact us if you
compliments product class size to 8 delegates; courses use hands on courses; courseware would like a course to be
specific courses covering often we have less than sessions to reinforce does not just consist of customised to meet your
the complete picture of this. This ensures optimal the theory. slides and our slides are specific requirements.
all relevant devices interactivity between diagrams not bullet point Have the course your
including the protocols delegates and instructor. text. way.
“on the wire”.
“Friendly environment “Excellent course. The “Not many courses “Comprehensive “I was very impressed by
with expert teaching that small class size was a have practice added to materials that made the the combination of
teaches the why before great benefit...” it. Normally just the course easy to follow practical and theory.
the how.” M.B. IBM theoretical stuff is and will be used as a Very informative.
G.C. Fasthosts covered.” reference point.” Friendly approachable
J.W. Vodafone V.B. Rockwell Collins environment, lots of
hands on.”
S.R. Qinetiq

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Course content

What is DevOps and network automation APIs

Programming and automating networks, networks Proprietary APIs, CLI, NETCONF, RETCONF.
and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for YANG, XML, YAML, JSON.
network operations. Unit testing. Hype vs reality.
Benefits and features.

Other tools
Git, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and others.
Network monitoring and troubleshooting
Traditional methods, SNMP. Netflow and xflow.
Traditional automation. Streaming telemetry.
Event driven automation. gRPC, Protocol buffers.

What our customers say

Configuration management
Catch 22 and initial configuration. ZTP, POAP.
Traditional automation. TFTP. Ansible vs the rest
(chef, salt, puppet). Jinja2 and templating. How
ansible works.
“Absolutely brilliant, very knowledgeable and
helpful trainer would recommend to teach
anyone. Kept me interested 100% of the time which is
very impressive as this does not happen often, if at all!”
O. B. Network Rail

Network programmability
“The best technical course I’ve been on!.”
Programming languages. Linux, shell scripting.
Python vs the rest. Off box vs on box automation. L. W. Fujitsu Telecoms Europe

“Very well thought out and structured course. Would

recommend 100%. Lots of equipment, good quality.”
Python network libraries A.R. Unipart
Sockets pysnmp, ncclient, paramiko, netmiko,
pyez, NAPALM.
“Course content is interesting. Relevant to current
systems and presented well.”
S.S-T. Arqiva

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