awesome-network-automation

Ansible's mailing list and forum!

Ansible IRC Channels

The complete offical list of Chef Community resources

A conference focused on Network Automation

The NTC Slack is a vendor and product agnostic home/pseudo-home to many popular Network Automation solution repositories, such as Nautobot, NAPALM, Netmiko, Nornir, NSoT, and so on. Over 17,000 members meet here to discuss topics related to Network Automation

The complete offical list of Puppet Community resources

The SaltStack formulas working group

A centralized group for talking about network device automation with SaltStack

The official forum of the Salt community

The official Slack of Saltstack Project

AWS re:Invent Central is designed to facilitate connections between sponsors and attendees

AnsibleFest is a day-long conference bringing together Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best practices, case studies and Ansible news

Local NYC Ansible user meetup

Chef community summit schedule

A community of network engineers, who have interest in the new buzz of network automation

Minnesota Network User Group, quarterly meetup of network users

North American Network Operators' Group with fair share of automation presentations/discussions

Maybe this can pressure NTC to finally setup an event for the 140+ NTC meetup members

A 24-hour global event including community discussions, presentations, and training. Formerly PuppetConf

Local NYC SaltStack user meetup

Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format

4 days event including two days of SaltStack customer case studies and SaltStack technical deep dives

Learning and Certifications at Cisco has created a series of in-depth training videos to assist users with installing and operating Cisco Modeling Labs (CML). This video series also provides a few videos on some of the more advanced features that CML offers

Self-paced e-learning with theory, exercises and quizzes for the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert exam by Luca Gubler

Training resources targeting the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert exam topics, including bootcamp courses by Andreas Baekdahl

Offers an inexpensive set of introductions to Ansible and Python for Network Engineers, among other courses

Numerous courses, webinars, and videos covering SDN, network automation, cloud computing, virtualization technologies, IPv6, VPNs, and much more

Network Automation Training including Python, Ansible, DevOps, and much more

Jumpstart your journey into network programmability with this expert-led video course by Cisco DevNet

Collection of DevNet certification study resources, such as study plans and Postman collections

Learn skills that make you better at network automation and that improve your capability to use programming to scale your work

Ivan Pepelnjak, Troopers

Mircea Ulinic, NANOG 69,

David Barroso, SDN and Network Automation Meetup, Stockholm

Jose Leitao, David Rothera, RIPE71

David Barroso, Elisa Jasinska, NANOG 64

Leslie Carr, RIPE71,

The Network Automation thoughts of Benoît Claise

The Network Automation thoughts of Brad Searle

The Network Automation thoughts of David Barroso

The Network Automation thoughts of Eric Chou

Network automation, software-networking and musings from David Gee

Network automation blog posts by Ivan Pepelnjak

The Network Automation thoughts of Jason Edelman

The Network Automation thoughts of Josh VanDeraa

Random thoughts of Mircea Ulinic. May include event-driven network automation, vendor bashing or machine learning (TBD)

The Network Automation thoughts of Vincent Bernat

News and updates about the NAPALM project

Network to Code's blog sharing thoughts, ideas, and tips all about network automation

The Network Automation thoughts of Patrick Ogenstad

The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Kashin

The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Schön

Blog about the open-source network emulation and network simulation tools by Brian Linkletter

The Network Automation thoughts of Rick Donato

The Network Automation thoughts of Jeremy Stretch

Articles on Netmiko, NAPALM, and Ansible by Kirk Byers

The Network Automation thoughts of Scott Lowe

The Network Automation thoughts of Wim Wauters

Introduction to YAML

Online YAML Parser

Sample YAML documents describing common data structures

YAML examples courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak

Explains how JSON schema can be used to validate YAML files and how syntax highlighting can be added to the IDE for the YAML files

YAML online parser

-- Document with the most common YAML idiosyncrasies, hosted under the SaltStack docs, but not specific to Salt or any other tool

Awesome JSON

A curated list of awesome JSON libraries and resources

JSON Basics

An online JSON diff tool

An online JSON to YAML conversion tool

XML to JSON and JSON to XML converter online

Introducing YANG Data Modeling for the Network

The IETF RFC on YANG

NAPALM YANG introduction

A walkthrough video on how to build your own YANG model

Base documentation for Jinja2

Sample Jinja2 templates

Jinja examples courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak

How to combine HTTP path, method and payload for IOS-XE restconf operations

A view into the payload of NETCONF XML documents and layers

Awesome Python

A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources

Learn Python The Hard Way takes you from absolute zero to able to read and write basic Python, giving you the tools to understand other documentation and books about Python

Learn Python by Codecademy

Examples on how to access data in nested structures of lists and dicts

Experienced Python programmers and enthusiasts from around the world that are eager to share their experience

Awesome Go

A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries, software and resources

Introduction to programming with Go

This tool instantly converts JSON into a Go type definition

This tool instantly converts YAML into a Go type definition

The Arista Command eAPI is a simple and complete API that allows you to configure and monitor your Arista switches

Online documentation of Cisco DNA Center Platform API

Cisco IOS XE REST API Management Reference Guide

Documentation for Plug and Play, Guestshell, Python API, EEM, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI/gNOI, gRPC and Application Hosting

Cisco IOS-XR API Docs only

Documentation Blogs and Tutorials on all things IOS-XR An Open, Extensible and Stable Cloud-Scale Network Operating System

Coming Soon

Main DEVNET page for NX-API docs

Checkpoint Management REST API docs

Cumulus Networks REST API docs

EXOS REST API

Documentation and examples for ExtremeSwitching ExtremeXOS RESTCONF API

EXOS JSONRPC Interface

Documentation and examples for ExtremeSwitching ExtremeXOS JSONRPC API

Documentation for writing Python applications that run on ExtremeXOS based switches

REST API User Guide, Version 13.0.0

and

JUNOS REST API Guide

Manage network environments within Meraki's cloud management tools

Documentation of changes to API endpoints

PAN-OS 8.0 XML API Reference

YouTube video by Jason Edelman of NetworkToCode introducing the ios_config Ansible module

Sample network automation Ansible playbooks

Ansible playbooks geared towards network engineers, courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak

Batfish.org home page with tutorials, talks and technical papers detailing the research behind Batfish

Getting Started Documentation for Batfish

Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter Notebooks showing how to use Batfish for configuration, ACL, routing, forwarding, etc... analysis

YouTube videos explaining how to use Batfish

Using Chef Client with Cisco NX-OS

Clixon home page with links to the different projects with code and documentation

Clixon Code

Clixon provides an interactive CLI, NETCONF, and RESTCONF configuration interface for a YANG-based device

Clixon Controller Code

The Clixon controller is an open-source tool for network automation of devices based on NETCONF and YANG

Infrahub GitHub Repo

Infrahub - A new approach to Infrastructure Management

Including overview, getting started, and FAQ

My experiences of managing a Cisco switch with Puppet

Napalm-Salt Repository

The NAPALM-Salt Repository

salt-nornir

proxy minion to manage network with SaltStack and Nornir using Netmiko, NAPALM, Scrapli, Ncclient, PyGNMI, PyATS based plugins to name a few

salt-sproxy

Salt plugin to automate the management and configuration of (network) devices at scale, without running (Proxy) Minions

Salt in 10 minutes

Salt high availability and fault tolerance

Event-driven network automation using Salt: up and running in 60 minutes

Salt 2016.11 (Carbon) release notes

Salt 2017.7 (Nitrogen) release notes

Getting Started Guide walks you through the fundamental concepts you need to learn as you start using SaltStack

SaltStack Configuration Management

SaltStack Network Automation Overview

Using Salt at scale

StackStorm Repository

StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation commonly used for auto-remediation, security responses, facilitated troubleshooting, complex deployments, and more. Includes rules engine, workflow, 1800+ integrations, native ChatOps and so forth

Ready to install StackStorm? Here’s an overview of how to get your system up and running

Various intro, marketing, interviews, and technical product talks

Documentation repository for latest version of StackStorm

SGW team talk with StackStorm (including Matt Oswalt) to discuss StackStorm

All official documentation including project overview, quick start, configuration guide, etc

SuzieQ Repository

Open-source code for the SuzieQ project

Official youtube home of the SuzieQ project providing community meetups and demonstrations of the project in action

eNMS

A vendor-agnostic NMS for carrier-grade network visualization and network automation

Nautobot

Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform

netpalm

netpalm is a ReST broker and abstraction layer for NAPALM, Netmiko, NCCLIENT or a Python Script

NSoT

Network Source of Truth (NSoT) is a source of truth database and repository for tracking inventory and metadata of network entities to ease management and automation of network infrastructure

Job scheduler and runbook (and Ansible playbook) automation

Aerleon

Multi-platform ACL generation system with plugin support, YAML-based config, and a Python API. Fork of Capirca

Capirca

Multi-platform ACL generation system; can output Juniper/IOS/etc ACLs from the same policy

Genie Parsers by Cisco

ciscoconfparse

Parse, Audit, Query, Build, and Modify Cisco IOS-style configurations

Documentation for the VIRL 2 (aka CML) API Client. Use this library to create Python scripts to interact with CML

EasySNMP

Easy to use and very fast SNMP library that uses Net-SNMP

FreeZTP

FreeZTP is an open-source Zero-Touch Provisioning system for Cisco IOS campus switches and routers

gNMI CLI client and collector

Hierarchical Configuration

Hierarchical Configuration is a Python library that is able to take a running configuration of a network device, compare it to its intended configuration, and build the remediation steps necessary bring a device into spec with its intended configuration

inet-henge

Generate d3.js based Network Diagram from JSON data

A full-featured template engine for Python

NAPALM

NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support) is a Python library that implements a set of functions to interact with different router vendor devices using a unified API

Need To Graph

A library to generate diagrams in yWorks GraphML, diagrams.net/draw.io or JSON formats using structured data or show commands output

netaddr

Network address manipulation that supports a number of techniques (supernetting and subnetting)

Netmiko

Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices

Netutils

A Python library that is a collection of functions that are used in the common network automation tasks

Nornir

Nornir is a pure Python automation framework intended to be used directly from Python

Network Unit Testing System is a Pytest plugin enabling writing network tests with YAML files

PyGNMI

Pure Python implementation of gNMI client to interact with network functions

SEC is an event correlation tool for advanced event processing which can be harnessed for event log monitoring, for network and security management, for fraud detection, and for any other task which involves event correlation

Template Text Parser

CLI tool and Python module for parsing semi-structured text into structured data. Similar syntax to Jinja templating, but in reverse. TTP Templates

TextFSM

Python module for parsing semi-structured text into Python tables

YAPYANG

Python package that helps translate YANG data models to Python

ansible-junos-stdlib

Junos OS modules for Ansible

ansible-mysql-query

Ansible module to modify MySQL database records

ara

Ansible Runtime Analysis

FortiManager-Ansible

Ansible module to work with FortiManager

Infoblox-Ansible

Ansible module to work with Infoblox

IP Infusion OcNOS Ansible module

Ansible module, SNMP MIB files, and YANG files for OcNOS

Napalm-Ansible

Collection of Ansible modules that use napalm to retrieve data or modify configuration on networking devices

Netscaler-Ansible

Ansible module to work with Netscalers

NTC Ansible

Multi-vendor Ansible modules for Network Automation

pan-os-ansible

Ansible modules for working with Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

napalm-install-formula

Salt formula to simplify the installation of the necessary packages and system dependencies for NAPALM

napalm-ntp-formula

Formula to manage the NTP configuration on network devices, following the OpenConfig system YANG model

clicrud

Brocade specific (MLX/VDX/ICX/CER/CES) CLI driver (Telnet & SSH)

cvprac

Python library for Arista CVP

dnacentersdk

Python library for Cisco DNA Center Platform API

f5-common-python

Python SDK for configuration and monitoring of F5 BIG-IP devices via the iControl REST API

Infoblox Python Module

Python wrapper for REST API

Infoblox Go Client

Go wrapper for REST API

pan-python

Multi-tool set for Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, Panorama, WildFire and AutoFocus

pandevice

Device framework for interacting with Palo Alto Networks devices

pyeapi

Python library for Arista EOS

pyfg

Python library for Fortinet

pyiosxr

Python library for Cisco IOSXR

pyntc

Python library focused on tasks related to device level and OS management

py-junos-eznc

Python library for Junos automation

Batfish

Open-source network validation application. Multi-vendor configuration parser with a detailed modeled based simulation to analyze all aspects of network behavior (routing, forwarding, security, etc...)

Create beautiful diagrams in minutes. Simple syntax. Endlessly customizable. D2 is the fastest and easiest way to get a mental model from your head onto the screen, then make edits with your team

Drawthe.net

Draw network diagrams described in YAML files

IS-IS Watcher

Tracks IS-IS topology changes by establishing a GRE tunnel with network devices via a history diagram

napalm-logs

Cross-vendor normalisation for network syslog messages, following the OpenConfig and IETF YANG models

Network-Conditions-Emulator

Artificially limit bandwidth, delay and loss rate on selected interfaces

netconan

Network Configuration Anonymizer

NetCopa

Network device configuration parser ("industry standard" -> YAML converter)

NetTowel

Collection of useful network automation functions for the CLI

OSPF Watcher

Tracks OSPF topology changes by establishing a GRE tunnel with network devices via a history diagram

Topolograph

Python-based Web tool for visualisation of OSPF/ISIS topologies and making a prediction of network behaviour in case of network's outage

Made for developers to build time-series-based applications quickly and at scale

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud

Telegraf is the open source server agent to help you collect metrics from your stacks, sensors, and systems

The open observability platform

Online Jinja2 parser. Additional support for Ansible and Salt filters

Online Jinja2 parser with Ansible, SaltStack and Stackstorm filter support. Jinja2 environment settings can be configured

Advanced online rendering tool

Online development tool for Jinja2 templates and more

Online development tool for TextFSM templates and more

Simple online TextFSM parser with examples

Online development tool for TTP templates and more

Simple TTP online parser with easy examples

Docker is a software technology providing operating system-level virtualization also known as containers, promoted by the company Docker, Inc

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution build into the Linux Kernel

Proxmox is an open source virtualization platform that provides an easy web interface (and REST API) for KVM and LXC

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, 64-bit POWER, S390, 32-bit and 64-bit ARM, and MIPS guests

Vagrant enables users to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use

VMware ESXi is a purpose-built bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server

Batfish

Batfish provides a model-based simulation for multi-vendor networks, that enables routing, forwarding, security, compliance, and what-if scenario analysis of a network (or proposed change to a network)

Cisco WAE, formerly known as Cariden MATE, provides a multi-vendor network simulation that enables capacity planning and what-if scenario analysis for carrier networks

Forward Enterprise documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an always-accurate software copy of your entire network infrastructure for both on-prem and cloud

Juniper WANDL provides traffic engineering models that enable capacity planning, network optimization and what-if scenario analysis for carrier networks

SuzieQ

SuzieQ is a agentless, multi-vendor network observability application

Cidr

Cidr Is not as Dumb as Rancid

fetchconfig

fetchconfig is a Perl script for retrieving configuration of multiple devices

Gerty

Universal framework for device management automation. Eventually a replacement for RANCID... and much more

Jazigo

Jazigo is a tool written in Go for retrieving configuration for multiple devices, similar to rancid, fetchconfig, oxidized, Sweet

Oxidized

Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!

RANCID monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes

Sweet

Network device configuration backups and change alerts for the 21st century - inspired by RANCID!

Configuration backup with an easy to use Web GUI. From nothing to backing-up 1000 routers in 15 minutes

BlueCat provides network intelligence and insight into the relationship between devices, users and IP addresses that can be put into action to improve security and ensure reliable, always-on business connectivity

Automatically maintain an up-to-date inventory of your physical, virtual, and cloud servers and containers, network components, software, services, applications, and their inter-relationships and inter-dependencies. Integrations, REST APIs and webhooks to automate your workflows with a modern CMDB as a single source of truth. Comes with powerful Data Center Infrastructure Management, IP Address Management and Application Mappings. Mostly leverages SNMP or vendor provided APIs that are well adopted/documented

Industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, the category known as DDI

NetBox

NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool

nipap is a sleek, intuitive and powerful IP address management system built to handle large amounts of IP addresses

NSoT

Network Source of Truth is an open source IPAM and network inventory database

phpIPAM is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and useful IP address management

TeemIp is an open source, WEB based, IP Adress Management (IPAM) tool that provides comprehensive IP Management capabilities. It allows you to manage your IPv4 and IPv6 spaces through a simple and powerful user interface: track user requests, discover and allocate IPs, manage your IP plan and your subnet space in accordance with best in class IP Management practices

Jerikan

Network wide CMDB combining single source of truth in YAML, configs in Jinja2 and deployment with Ansible

Network Configuration Manager is a multi vendor network change, configuration and compliance management (NCCCM) solution for switches, routers, firewalls and other network devices

Vendor Agnostic NCCM tool with with policy engine and multi-vendor device lifecycle/vulnerability management. (Infoblox product)

Free, open source network device configuration management tool, customizable to your needs!

Automated network configuration and compliance management

Network-wide configuration search and config diff over time in an easy to use web GUI

Learn Ansible concepts from an industry leading Ansible expert, with associated Vagrant files for ease of learning

Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way

If you want to study, build, or simply validate your thinking about modern cloud native data center networks, this is your book. Whether you’re pursuing a multitenant private cloud, a network for running machine learning, or an enterprise data center, author Dinesh Dutt takes you through the steps necessary to design a data center that’s affordable, high capacity, easy to manage, agile, and reliable

Learn cultural and organizational best practices on how to make a good DevOps team

This pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job companion to Git, the distributed version control system. It provides a compact, readable introduction to Git for new users, as well as a reference to common commands and procedures for those of you with Git experience

Learn the Infra as Code principles and design patterns (examples are for Compute not network though)

, - Become an expert in implementing advanced, network-related tasks with Python

Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer

The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI

An introduction and practical look at using Salt to automate your network at scale, in a free ebook from O'Reilly

Step by step guide for getting started with Open Source Network Management tools such as Nautobot, Hashicorp Vault, Telegraf, and Prometheus

Learn concepts of automating and operating at scale from Google experts

Learn from the best practices of SRE practitioners who are not working at Google

Learn the concepts of Agile and DevOps principles

See the concepts of Agile and DevOps in this fiction story about a typical IT Org

See the concepts of Agile and DevOps following a Developer viewpoint

Monitoring & Closed-Loop Automation for Multi-Vendor Networks

The Apstra Operating System (AOS) is a vendor-agnostic distributed operating system for the data center network that enables business agility, dramatically scales operational efficiency, and reduces downtime

NSO (former Tail-f NCS) is a multi-vendor automation and orchestration platform for physical and virtual networks for over 80+ vendors. NSO provides YANG-based programmability through a wide variety of interfaces including CLI, RESTCONF, NETCONF, Java, Python and web UI

Forward Enterprise documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an always-accurate software copy of your entire network infrastructure for both on-prem and cloud

With Gluware, the Glue Networks vision and team are continuing to trail-blaze at the forefront of the networking industry with multi-vendor orchestration solutions for Data Center, WAN and LAN networks

Intentionet provides a hosted or on-premise network validation software solution based on . Intentionet Sage's model-based network simulation enables pre-commit validation for all network changes, ensuring only correct changes are pushed to the network, thereby reducing outages and breaches while improving network agility

Network assurance tool with vendor agnostic network discovery, inventory, modelling and mapping of on-prem and cloud networks. Snapshots create a point-in-time view to verify that network behaves as intended after changes. GUI supports your network documentation with accurate, live network representation, and API used to keep all your SoT, automation tooling and monitoring up to date

Vendor Agnostic NCCM tool with with policy engine and multi-vendor device lifecycle/vulnerability management. (Infoblox product)

NetYCE lets you be in control of any and all of your networks, using its unique Design Driven Networking approach. Not stopping at network devices, but orchestrate end-to-end including firewalls, DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) and other 3rd party tooling. Deploy your networks as Designed

PacketFront BECS and BBE is a vendor-agnostic network, service and resource orchestration system for residential, enterprise and data center networks

The enterprise edition of the open source project

Cisco DNA Center automates campus networks for faster workflows, faster troubleshooting through more visibility, and policy-driven security (inc. )

Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud controlled WiFi, routing, and security. Secure and scalable, Cisco Meraki enterprise networks simply work

Viptela provides Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology that allows global companies to build cost-effective WANs

Cumulus NetQ is a highly-scalable, modern network operations tool set that provides visibility into your overlay and underlay networks in real-time. NetQ delivers actionable insights and operational intelligence about the health of your data center — from the container, virtual machine, or host, all the way to the switch and port, enabling a NetDevOps approach

Talari Networks SD-WAN technology

Network to Code automation podcast on the Network Collective feed

The Journey To Full Stack

Software Gone Wild is focusing on architectures, solutions and technologies that real networking engineers use in production networks

GRASSROOTS AUTOMATION

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code with Damien Garros and Ken Celenza

The Current State Of Network Automation & Telemetry

Git For Ops People with Damien Garros

David Barroso, Kirk Byers, and Dmitri Figol on Nornir

Creating A Single Source Of Truth For Network Automation with Tim Schreyack

Network Testing With ToDD

Netmiko & NAPALM For Network Automation

Practical YANG For Network Automation

Mastering Python Networking – The Book

Kirk Byers on Network Automation with Python & Ansible

Intro to Python & Automation for Network Engineers

Automation & Orchestration In Networking

Design & Build 13: Network Orchestration with Salt

The Business Impact Of Network Automation

Show 368: Radical Change, DevOps & Automation

Show 402 - Building A Network Automation Framework

Scrapli Is A Netmiko Alternative - Show 532 with Carl Montanari and Dmitry Figol

Ansible Or Terraform: Choose One with Josh VanDeraa and Ned Bellavance

NAPALM with David Barroso and Mircea Ulinic

Network Automation At Enterprise Scale With Python - Episode 232 with Antoine Fourmy

Pythonic Networks with NAPALM

Teaching Python to network engineers