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Network Automation Hub

A curated collection of resources and tools for network automation

Curated Awesome list about Network Automation

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Community

Ansible Google Groups Ansible's mailing list and forum!
IRC Ansible Ansible IRC Channels
Chef Community The complete offical list of Chef Community resources
Network Automation Forum A conference focused on Network Automation
Network to Code Slack 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
Puppet Community The complete offical list of Puppet Community resources
Salt Formulas The SaltStack formulas working group
Salt Networks A centralized group for talking about network device automation with SaltStack
Salt Users The official forum of the Salt community
SaltStack Community Slack The official Slack of Saltstack Project

Events / Meetup

AWS Reinvent AWS re:Invent Central is designed to facilitate connections between sponsors and attendees
Ansible Fest AnsibleFest is a day-long conference bringing together Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best practices, case studies and Ansible news
Ansible NYC Meetup Local NYC Ansible user meetup
Chef Summits Chef community summit schedule
London Network Automation Meetup A community of network engineers, who have interest in the new buzz of network automation
Minnesota Network User Group Minnesota Network User Group, quarterly meetup of network users
NANOG North American Network Operators' Group with fair share of automation presentations/discussions
Network to Coders Meetup Maybe this can pressure NTC to finally setup an event for the 140+ NTC meetup members
Puppetize Live A 24-hour global event including community discussions, presentations, and training. Formerly PuppetConf
SaltStack NYC Meetup Local NYC SaltStack user meetup
Tech Field Day Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format
SaltConf 4 days event including two days of SaltStack customer case studies and SaltStack technical deep dives

Training

CML - Training videos @ learningnetwork.cisco.com 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
DevNet Academy Self-paced e-learning with theory, exercises and quizzes for the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert exam by Luca Gubler
DevNet Expert Training Training resources targeting the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert exam topics, including bootcamp courses by Andreas Baekdahl
GNS3 Academy - Instructor David Bombal Offers an inexpensive set of introductions to Ansible and Python for Network Engineers, among other courses
ipSpace.net Numerous courses, webinars, and videos covering SDN, network automation, cloud computing, virtualization technologies, IPv6, VPNs, and much more
Network to Code Network Automation Training including Python, Ansible, DevOps, and much more
Network Programmability Basics - Cisco Jumpstart your journey into network programmability with this expert-led video course by Cisco DevNet
Nick Russo study resources Collection of DevNet certification study resources, such as study plans and Postman collections
Python for Network Engineers Learn skills that make you better at network automation and that improve your capability to use programming to scale your work

Presentations

Python, Go and Rust for Network Automation
Text Parsing Strategies for Network Devices
Nautobot Overview
Automation without Config Deployment
Cisco DevNet Day 2020
Interop Network Automation track
NetBox Day
Network Automation: The Hype vs. Reality
Network Automation Architecture
Network Automation Journey - Part 1
Network Automation Journey - Part 2
Managing Network Device Properties as Code
Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth
Bart Dworak AnsibleFest Keynote
Greenfielding Network and Systems Automation in a Large and Highly Dynamic Public Transit Network
Using Ansible as a Catalyst for Digital Transformation
Securing Network Automation
slide deck Ivan Pepelnjak, Troopers
Network automation at scale
slide deck Mircea Ulinic, NANOG 69,
Experiences with network automation at Dyn
Abstract all the things
presentation David Barroso, SDN and Network Automation Meetup, Stockholm
How Facebook Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Network
slide deck Jose Leitao, David Rothera, RIPE71
NAPALM
slide deck David Barroso, Elisa Jasinska, NANOG 64
What Is NetDevOps
slide deck Leslie Carr, RIPE71,

Blogs

Benoît Claise blog The Network Automation thoughts of Benoît Claise
Coding Packets The Network Automation thoughts of Brad Searle
dravetech.com The Network Automation thoughts of David Barroso
Eric Chou - PythonicNetneg The Network Automation thoughts of Eric Chou
IPEngineer - David Gee Network automation, software-networking and musings from David Gee
ipSpace.net - Ivan Pepelnjak Network automation blog posts by Ivan Pepelnjak
Jason Edelman The Network Automation thoughts of Jason Edelman
Josh-V The Network Automation thoughts of Josh VanDeraa
Mircea Ulinic Random thoughts of Mircea Ulinic. May include event-driven network automation, vendor bashing or machine learning (TBD)
MTU Ninja The Network Automation thoughts of Vincent Bernat
Napalm-automation News and updates about the NAPALM project
Network to Code Network to Code's blog sharing thoughts, ideas, and tips all about network automation
Networklore The Network Automation thoughts of Patrick Ogenstad
Network OP The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Kashin
NWMichl Blog The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Schön
Open-Source Routing and Network Simulation - Brian Linkletter Blog about the open-source network emulation and network simulation tools by Brian Linkletter
Packet Coders The Network Automation thoughts of Rick Donato
Packet Life The Network Automation thoughts of Jeremy Stretch
Python for Network Engineers Articles on Netmiko, NAPALM, and Ansible by Kirk Byers
Scott Lowe The Network Automation thoughts of Scott Lowe
Wim Wauters The Network Automation thoughts of Wim Wauters

Programming Topics / Structured Data / YAML

Getting Started and Basics Introduction to YAML
Online Validator Online YAML Parser
Sample YAML documents describing common data structures 207 11 months ago YAML examples courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak
YAML Data Validation with JSON Schema 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 syntax validator YAML online parser
YAML idiosyncrasies -- Document with the most common YAML idiosyncrasies, hosted under the SaltStack docs, but not specific to Salt or any other tool

Programming Topics / Structured Data / JSON

Awesome JSON 1,400 3 months ago A curated list of awesome JSON libraries and resources
Getting Started and Basics JSON Basics
JSON diff An online JSON diff tool
JSON 2 YAML An online JSON to YAML conversion tool

Programming Topics / Structured Data / XML

XML to JSON converter online XML to JSON and JSON to XML converter online

Programming Topics / Structured Data / YANG

Cisco Labs YANG Introduction Introducing YANG Data Modeling for the Network
IETF RFC The IETF RFC on YANG
YANG for dummies NAPALM YANG introduction
YANG fundamentals A walkthrough video on how to build your own YANG model

Programming Topics / Structured Data / Jinja2

Documentation Base documentation for Jinja2
Sample Jinja2 templates 207 11 months ago Jinja examples courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak

Programming Topics / API / RESTCONF

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

Programming Topics / API / NETCONF

NETCONF message layers A view into the payload of NETCONF XML documents and layers

Programming Topics / Python

Awesome Python 225,227 3 months ago A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources
Learn Python the Hardway 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
Python at Codecademy Learn Python by Codecademy
Python data structures Examples on how to access data in nested structures of lists and dicts
Python Programming Guides and Tutorials - Python Central Experienced Python programmers and enthusiasts from around the world that are eager to share their experience

Programming Topics / Go

Awesome Go 133,063 2 days ago A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries, software and resources
Getting Started and Basics Introduction to programming with Go
JSON-to-Go This tool instantly converts JSON into a Go type definition
YAML-to-Go This tool instantly converts YAML into a Go type definition

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs

Arista EAPI The Arista Command eAPI is a simple and complete API that allows you to configure and monitor your Arista switches
Cisco DNA Center Platform API Online documentation of Cisco DNA Center Platform API
Cisco IOS XE CSR1000V Cisco IOS XE REST API Management Reference Guide

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs / Cisco IOS XE CSR1000V

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

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs

Cisco IOS-XR Cisco IOS-XR API Docs only

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs / Cisco IOS-XR

XR-Docs Documentation Blogs and Tutorials on all things IOS-XR An Open, Extensible and Stable Cloud-Scale Network Operating System
NX_API Coming soon Coming Soon
Cisco NX-API Main DEVNET page for NX-API docs

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs

Checkpoint Management API Checkpoint Management REST API docs
Cumulus Networks HTTP API Cumulus Networks REST API docs

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs / Extreme Networks:

EXOS REST API 21 over 2 years ago Documentation and examples for ExtremeSwitching ExtremeXOS RESTCONF API
EXOS JSONRPC Interface 21 over 2 years ago Documentation and examples for ExtremeSwitching ExtremeXOS JSONRPC API
EXOS Python API Documentation for writing Python applications that run on ExtremeXOS based switches

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs

F5 REST API User Guide, Version 13.0.0
Infoblox Perl API and
Juniper JUNOS API JUNOS REST API Guide
Meraki Dashboard API Manage network environments within Meraki's cloud management tools

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs / Meraki Dashboard API

Meraki Dashboard API What's New Documentation of changes to API endpoints

Programming Topics / Vendor API Docs

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS API PAN-OS 8.0 XML API Reference

Open Source Projects / Ansible

Getting Started with the ios_config Ansible Module YouTube video by Jason Edelman of NetworkToCode introducing the ios_config Ansible module
Sample network automation Ansible playbooks 230 almost 4 years ago Ansible playbooks geared towards network engineers, courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak

Open Source Projects / Batfish

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

Open Source Projects / Batfish / Getting Started with Batfish

Documentation Getting Started Documentation for Batfish
Jupyter Notebook 214 about 1 month ago Jupyter Notebooks showing how to use Batfish for configuration, ACL, routing, forwarding, etc... analysis
Video YouTube videos explaining how to use Batfish

Open Source Projects / Chef

Using Chef Client with Cisco NX-OS Using Chef Client with Cisco NX-OS

Open Source Projects / Clixon

Clixon Home Page Clixon home page with links to the different projects with code and documentation
Clixon Code 215 6 days ago Clixon provides an interactive CLI, NETCONF, and RESTCONF configuration interface for a YANG-based device
Clixon Controller Code 18 7 days ago The Clixon controller is an open-source tool for network automation of devices based on NETCONF and YANG

Open Source Projects / Infrahub

Infrahub GitHub Repo 209 3 days ago Infrahub - A new approach to Infrastructure Management
Infrahub Documentation Including overview, getting started, and FAQ

Open Source Projects / Puppet

Managing a Cisco switch with Puppet My experiences of managing a Cisco switch with Puppet

Open Source Projects / Salt

Napalm-Salt Repository 128 over 5 years ago The NAPALM-Salt Repository
salt-nornir 27 10 months ago proxy minion to manage network with SaltStack and Nornir using Netmiko, NAPALM, Scrapli, Ncclient, PyGNMI, PyATS based plugins to name a few
salt-sproxy 117 5 months ago Salt plugin to automate the management and configuration of (network) devices at scale, without running (Proxy) Minions
Salt in 10 minutes Salt in 10 minutes
Salt high availability and fault tolerance Salt high availability and fault tolerance
Salt RIPE-74 Event-driven network automation using Salt: up and running in 60 minutes
Salt 2016.11 Salt 2016.11 (Carbon) release notes
Salt 2017.7 Salt 2017.7 (Nitrogen) release notes
SaltStack fundamentals Getting Started Guide walks you through the fundamental concepts you need to learn as you start using SaltStack
SaltStack configuration management SaltStack Configuration Management
SaltStack Network Automation SaltStack Network Automation Overview
Using Salt at scale Using Salt at scale

Open Source Projects / StackStorm

StackStorm Repository 6,086 4 days ago 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
StackStorm Installer Ready to install StackStorm? Here’s an overview of how to get your system up and running
StackStorm Youtube Various intro, marketing, interviews, and technical product talks
Stackstorm Docs Documentation repository for latest version of StackStorm
StackStorm Intro on Software Gone Wild SGW team talk with StackStorm (including Matt Oswalt) to discuss StackStorm

Open Source Projects / SuzieQ

SuzieQ Documentation All official documentation including project overview, quick start, configuration guide, etc
SuzieQ Repository 795 3 months ago Open-source code for the SuzieQ project
SuzieQ Youtube Official youtube home of the SuzieQ project providing community meetups and demonstrations of the project in action

Open Source Projects / Products

eNMS 816 15 days ago A vendor-agnostic NMS for carrier-grade network visualization and network automation
Nautobot 1,073 3 days ago Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform
netpalm 437 6 months ago netpalm is a ReST broker and abstraction layer for NAPALM, Netmiko, NCCLIENT or a Python Script
NSoT 400 9 months ago 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
Rundeck Job scheduler and runbook (and Ansible playbook) automation

Open Source Projects / Library

Aerleon 194 6 days ago Multi-platform ACL generation system with plugin support, YAML-based config, and a Python API. Fork of Capirca
Capirca 779 14 days ago Multi-platform ACL generation system; can output Juniper/IOS/etc ACLs from the same policy
Cisco Genie Parsers Genie Parsers by Cisco
ciscoconfparse 798 5 months ago Parse, Audit, Query, Build, and Modify Cisco IOS-style configurations
Cisco virl2_client Documentation for the VIRL 2 (aka CML) API Client. Use this library to create Python scripts to interact with CML
EasySNMP 215 11 months ago Easy to use and very fast SNMP library that uses Net-SNMP
FreeZTP 216 about 2 years ago FreeZTP is an open-source Zero-Touch Provisioning system for Cisco IOS campus switches and routers
gNMIc gNMI CLI client and collector
Hierarchical Configuration 127 4 days ago 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 258 21 days ago Generate d3.js based Network Diagram from JSON data
Jinja2 A full-featured template engine for Python
NAPALM 2,262 8 days ago 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 157 5 months ago A library to generate diagrams in yWorks GraphML, diagrams.net/draw.io or JSON formats using structured data or show commands output
netaddr 781 5 months ago Network address manipulation that supports a number of techniques (supernetting and subnetting)
Netmiko 3,621 10 days ago Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices
Netutils 217 17 days ago A Python library that is a collection of functions that are used in the common network automation tasks
Nornir 1,399 10 days ago Nornir is a pure Python automation framework intended to be used directly from Python
NUTS Network Unit Testing System is a Pytest plugin enabling writing network tests with YAML files
PyGNMI 129 18 days ago Pure Python implementation of gNMI client to interact with network functions
SEC - Simple Event Correlator 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 349 8 months ago CLI tool and Python module for parsing semi-structured text into structured data. Similar syntax to Jinja templating, but in reverse. TTP Templates
TextFSM 1,119 23 days ago Python module for parsing semi-structured text into Python tables
YAPYANG 4 3 months ago Python package that helps translate YANG data models to Python

Open Source Projects / Non-Core Ansible Modules

ansible-junos-stdlib 307 9 days ago Junos OS modules for Ansible
ansible-mysql-query 33 over 2 years ago Ansible module to modify MySQL database records
ara 1,873 15 days ago Ansible Runtime Analysis
FortiManager-Ansible 65 about 4 years ago Ansible module to work with FortiManager
Infoblox-Ansible 55 7 days ago Ansible module to work with Infoblox
IP Infusion OcNOS Ansible module 24 21 days ago Ansible module, SNMP MIB files, and YANG files for OcNOS
Napalm-Ansible 246 8 months ago Collection of Ansible modules that use napalm to retrieve data or modify configuration on networking devices
Netscaler-Ansible 12 almost 6 years ago Ansible module to work with Netscalers
NTC Ansible 278 about 1 month ago Multi-vendor Ansible modules for Network Automation
pan-os-ansible 209 7 days ago Ansible modules for working with Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Open Source Projects / Pre-written Salt States (Formulas)

napalm-install-formula 5 over 2 years ago Salt formula to simplify the installation of the necessary packages and system dependencies for NAPALM
napalm-ntp-formula 4 about 7 years ago Formula to manage the NTP configuration on network devices, following the OpenConfig system YANG model

Open Source Projects / Vendor Abstraction Library

clicrud 13 over 7 years ago Brocade specific (MLX/VDX/ICX/CER/CES) CLI driver (Telnet & SSH)
cvprac 46 about 1 month ago Python library for Arista CVP
dnacentersdk 75 9 days ago Python library for Cisco DNA Center Platform API
f5-common-python 262 about 1 year ago Python SDK for configuration and monitoring of F5 BIG-IP devices via the iControl REST API
Infoblox Python Module 142 6 days ago Python wrapper for REST API
Infoblox Go Client 35 23 days ago Go wrapper for REST API
pan-python 268 4 months ago Multi-tool set for Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, Panorama, WildFire and AutoFocus
pandevice 347 about 1 month ago Device framework for interacting with Palo Alto Networks devices
pyeapi 140 about 1 month ago Python library for Arista EOS
pyfg 56 over 2 years ago Python library for Fortinet
pyiosxr 68 about 2 years ago Python library for Cisco IOSXR
pyntc 170 2 months ago Python library focused on tasks related to device level and OS management
py-junos-eznc 671 28 days ago Python library for Junos automation

Open Source Projects / Tools

Batfish 1,170 6 days ago 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...)
D2 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 1,114 8 months ago Draw network diagrams described in YAML files
IS-IS Watcher 4 4 days ago Tracks IS-IS topology changes by establishing a GRE tunnel with network devices via a history diagram
napalm-logs 141 6 months ago Cross-vendor normalisation for network syslog messages, following the OpenConfig and IETF YANG models
Network-Conditions-Emulator 13 about 3 years ago Artificially limit bandwidth, delay and loss rate on selected interfaces
netconan 146 4 months ago Network Configuration Anonymizer
NetCopa 135 10 months ago Network device configuration parser ("industry standard" -> YAML converter)
NetTowel 76 4 months ago Collection of useful network automation functions for the CLI
OSPF Watcher 64 8 days ago Tracks OSPF topology changes by establishing a GRE tunnel with network devices via a history diagram
Topolograph 177 11 days ago Python-based Web tool for visualisation of OSPF/ISIS topologies and making a prediction of network behaviour in case of network's outage

Open Source Projects / Network Telemetry

InfluxDB Made for developers to build time-series-based applications quickly and at scale
Prometheus Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud
Telegraf Telegraf is the open source server agent to help you collect metrics from your stacks, sensors, and systems
Grafana The open observability platform

Open Source Projects / Online Parser / Jinja2

J2Live - TTL255 Online Jinja2 parser. Additional support for Ansible and Salt filters
Jinja 101 Online Jinja2 parser with Ansible, SaltStack and Stackstorm filter support. Jinja2 environment settings can be configured
TD4a Advanced online rendering tool
textfsm.nornir.tech Online development tool for Jinja2 templates and more

Open Source Projects / Online Parser / TextFSM

textfsm.nornir.tech Online development tool for TextFSM templates and more
TextFSM 101 Simple online TextFSM parser with examples

Open Source Projects / Online Parser / TTP

textfsm.nornir.tech Online development tool for TTP templates and more
TTP 101 Simple TTP online parser with easy examples

Hypervisors and Containers

Docker Docker is a software technology providing operating system-level virtualization also known as containers, promoted by the company Docker, Inc
KVM KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution build into the Linux Kernel
Proxmox Proxmox is an open source virtualization platform that provides an easy web interface (and REST API) for KVM and LXC
QEMU 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 Vagrant enables users to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments
VirtualBox VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use
Vmware ESXi VMware ESXi is a purpose-built bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server

Network Simulators

Batfish 1,170 6 days ago 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 WAN Automation Engine 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 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 Juniper WANDL provides traffic engineering models that enable capacity planning, network optimization and what-if scenario analysis for carrier networks
SuzieQ 795 3 months ago SuzieQ is a agentless, multi-vendor network observability application

Backups

Cidr 15 over 6 years ago Cidr Is not as Dumb as Rancid
fetchconfig 15 almost 8 years ago fetchconfig is a Perl script for retrieving configuration of multiple devices
Gerty 69 over 7 years ago Universal framework for device management automation. Eventually a replacement for RANCID... and much more
Jazigo 216 about 1 year ago Jazigo is a tool written in Go for retrieving configuration for multiple devices, similar to rancid, fetchconfig, oxidized, Sweet
Oxidized 2,808 6 days ago Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!
RANCID 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 83 over 7 years ago Network device configuration backups and change alerts for the 21st century - inspired by RANCID!
Unimus Configuration backup with an easy to use Web GUI. From nothing to backing-up 1000 routers in 15 minutes

IPAM

bluecat 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
Device42 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
Infoblox Industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, the category known as DDI
NetBox 16,261 6 days ago NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool
nipap nipap is a sleek, intuitive and powerful IP address management system built to handle large amounts of IP addresses
NSoT 400 9 months ago Network Source of Truth is an open source IPAM and network inventory database
phpIPAM phpIPAM is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and useful IP address management
TeemIP 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

Configuration Management

Jerikan 149 almost 2 years ago Network wide CMDB combining single source of truth in YAML, configs in Jinja2 and deployment with Ansible
ManageEngine Network Configuration Manager is a multi vendor network change, configuration and compliance management (NCCCM) solution for switches, routers, firewalls and other network devices
NetMRI Vendor Agnostic NCCM tool with with policy engine and multi-vendor device lifecycle/vulnerability management. (Infoblox product)
Rconfig Free, open source network device configuration management tool, customizable to your needs!
Solarwinds Automated network configuration and compliance management
Unimus Network-wide configuration search and config diff over time in an easy to use web GUI

Books

Ansible for DevOps Learn Ansible concepts from an industry leading Ansible expert, with associated Vagrant files for ease of learning
Ansible: Up and Running Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way
Cloud Native Data Center Networking 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
Effective DevOps Learn cultural and organizational best practices on how to make a good DevOps team
Git Pocket Guide 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
Infrastructure as Code Learn the Infra as Code principles and design patterns (examples are for Compute not network though)
Mastering Python Networking Second Edition (August 2018) , - Become an expert in implementing advanced, network-related tasks with Python
Network Programmability and Automation Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer
Network Programmability with YANG The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI
Network Automation at Scale An introduction and practical look at using Salt to automate your network at scale, in a free ebook from O'Reilly
Open Source Network Management Step by step guide for getting started with Open Source Network Management tools such as Nautobot, Hashicorp Vault, Telegraf, and Prometheus
Site Reliability Engineering and The Site Reliability Workbook Learn concepts of automating and operating at scale from Google experts
Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale Learn from the best practices of SRE practitioners who are not working at Google
The DevOps Handbook Learn the concepts of Agile and DevOps principles
The Phoenix Project See the concepts of Agile and DevOps in this fiction story about a typical IT Org
The Unicorn Project See the concepts of Agile and DevOps following a Developer viewpoint

Vendor Agnostic Products

Anuta Networks ATOM Monitoring & Closed-Loop Automation for Multi-Vendor Networks
Apstra 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
Cisco NSO 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 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
Glue 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 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
IP Fabric 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
NetMRI Vendor Agnostic NCCM tool with with policy engine and multi-vendor device lifecycle/vulnerability management. (Infoblox product)
NetYCE 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 PacketFront BECS and BBE is a vendor-agnostic network, service and resource orchestration system for residential, enterprise and data center networks
SuzieQ Enterprise Edition The enterprise edition of the open source project

Network Vendor Products

Cisco DNA Center Cisco DNA Center automates campus networks for faster workflows, faster troubleshooting through more visibility, and policy-driven security (inc. )
Cisco Meraki Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud controlled WiFi, routing, and security. Secure and scalable, Cisco Meraki enterprise networks simply work
Cisco Viptela Viptela provides Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology that allows global companies to build cost-effective WANs
Cumulus Networks NetQ 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
Oracle Talari Talari Networks SD-WAN technology

Podcasts / Podcasts Feeds

Network to Code Network to Code automation podcast on the Network Collective feed
Packet Pushers Full Stack The Journey To Full Stack
Software Gone Wild Software Gone Wild is focusing on architectures, solutions and technologies that real networking engineers use in production networks

Podcasts / Podcasts Episodes

Network Collective EPISODE 10 GRASSROOTS AUTOMATION
Network Collective Infrastructure as Code 101 Introduction to Infrastructure as Code with Damien Garros and Ken Celenza
Packet Pushers Datanauts 80 The Current State Of Network Automation & Telemetry
Packet Pushers Day Two Cloud 043 Git For Ops People with Damien Garros
Packet Pushers Heavy Networking #445 David Barroso, Kirk Byers, and Dmitri Figol on Nornir
Packet Pushers Heavy Networking #498 Creating A Single Source Of Truth For Network Automation with Tim Schreyack
Packet Pushers PQ Show 81 Network Testing With ToDD
Packet Pushers PQ Show 99 Netmiko & NAPALM For Network Automation
Packet Pushers PQ Show 116 Practical YANG For Network Automation
Packet Pushers PQ Show 135 Mastering Python Networking – The Book
Packet Pushers PQ Show 198 Kirk Byers on Network Automation with Python & Ansible
Packet Pushers Show 176 Intro to Python & Automation for Network Engineers
Packet Pushers Show 333 Automation & Orchestration In Networking
Packet Pushers Show 351 Design & Build 13: Network Orchestration with Salt
Packet Pushers Show 353 The Business Impact Of Network Automation
Packet Pushers Show 368 Show 368: Radical Change, DevOps & Automation
Packet Pushers Show 402 Show 402 - Building A Network Automation Framework
Packet Pushers Show 532 Scrapli Is A Netmiko Alternative - Show 532 with Carl Montanari and Dmitry Figol
Packet Pushers Show 537 Ansible Or Terraform: Choose One with Josh VanDeraa and Ned Bellavance
Podcast__init Episode 117 NAPALM with David Barroso and Mircea Ulinic
Podcast__init Episode 232 Network Automation At Enterprise Scale With Python - Episode 232 with Antoine Fourmy
Talk Python to me #128 Pythonic Networks with NAPALM
Talk Python to me #175 Teaching Python to network engineers

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