- [Ansbile Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project) - Welcome to Ansible's mailing list / forum!
## Events / Meetup
- [Ansible Fest](https://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest) - AnsibleFest is a day-long conference bringing together Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best practices, case studies and Ansible news.
- [Tech Field Day](http://techfieldday.com/) - Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format.
- [AWS Reinvent](https://reinvent.awsevents.com/) - AWS re:Invent Central is designed to facilitate connections between sponsors and attendees.
# Training
- [NTC](http://networktocode.com/products/training/) - Network Automation Training including Python, Ansible, DevOps, and much more.
- [Python for Network Engineers](https://pynet.twb-tech.com/class.html) - You will learn skills that make you better at network automation and that improve your capability to use programming to scale your work.
- [IP Space](http://www.ipspace.net/Training) - On ipSpace.net you'll find numerous courses, webinars, and videos covering SDN, cloud computing, virtualization technologies, IPv6 and VPNs.
# Blogs
- [cidrblock](https://cidrblock.github.io) - The Network Automation thoughts of Bradley A. Thornton
- [Coding Networker](https://codingnetworker.com) - The Network Automation thoughts of Henry Ölsner
- [Jason Edelman](http://www.jedelman.com/) - The Network Automation thoughts of Jason Edelman
- [Packet Life](http://packetlife.net/) - The Network Automation thoughts of Jeremy Strech
- [Project 10](https://projectme10.wordpress.com) - The Network Automation thoughts of Gabriele Gerbino
- [Scott Lowe](http://blog.scottlowe.org) - The Network Automation thoughts of Scott Lowe
- [Networklore](https://networklore.com/blog) - The Network Automation thoughts of Patrick Ogenstad
- [Network OP](http://networkop.co.uk/) - The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Kashin
# Programming Topics
## Structured Data
### Yaml
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
### JSON
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
### XML
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
### Yang
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
## API
### RestConf
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
### NETCONF
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
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## Python
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
## Go
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
# Open Source Projects
## Ansible
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
## Salt
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
## Puppet
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
## Chef
##### Getting Started and Basics
##### Examples
##### Advanced and Tools
## Products
- [Trigger](https://github.com/trigger/trigger) - Trigger is a robust network automation toolkit written in Python that was designed for interfacing with network devices and managing network configuration and security policy.
- [NSOT](https://github.com/dropbox/nsot) - Network Source of Truth (NSoT) a source of truth database and repository for tracking inventory and metadata of network entities to ease management and automation of network infrastructure
- [ToDD](https://github.com/toddproject/todd) - ToDD is an extensible framework for providing natively distributed testing on demand.
## Library
- [Napalm](https://github.com/napalm-automation/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.
- [Netmiko](https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko) - Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices
- [NTC Ansible](https://github.com/networktocode/ntc-ansible) - Multi-vendor Ansible Modules for Network Automation
- [Jtable]()
- [ciscoconfparse]()
- [TextFSM]()
- [JINJA2]()
## Tools
- [NetSpark-Scripts](https://github.com/admiralspark/NetSpark-Scripts) - Netmiko-based scripts to assist the Network Administrators and Engineers of the world!
- [BGP-Dashboard](https://github.com/rhicks/bgp-dashboard) - BGP Dashboard and Monitoring Web Application
- [Net-Config](https://github.com/SLAC/net-config/) - Automation framework for network devices
- [Network-CI](https://github.com/networkop/network-ci) - Proof of Concept of CI/CD methodology applied to traditional non-SDN network topologies
# Hypervisor's
- Docker
- Vagrant
- Kubrneteis
- VirtualBox
- ESX
# Backups
- [RANCID](www.shrubbery.net/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
- [Oxidized](https://github.com/ytti/oxidized) - Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!
- [Sweet](https://github.com/AppliedTrust/sweet) - Network device configuration backups and change alerts for the 21st century - inspired by RANCID!
- [Gerty](https://github.com/ssinyagin/gerty) - A universal framework for device management automation. Eventually a replacement for RANCID... and much more
- [Jazigo](https://github.com/udhos/jazigo) - Jazigo is a tool written in Go for retrieving configuration for multiple devices, similar to rancid, fetchconfig, oxidized, Sweet.
- [Cidr](https://github.com/renard/cidr) - Cidr Is not as Dumb as Rancid
# IPAM
- [phpipam](https://phpipam.net/) - phpipam is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and useful IP address management.
- [netbox](https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox) - NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.
- [infoblox](https://www.infoblox.com/) - Industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, the category known as DDI
- [haci](http://haci.larsux.de/) - HaCi is an IP Address / Network Administration (IPAM) Tool with IPv6 support.
- [bluecat](https://www.bluecatnetworks.com/products/ip-address-management/) - 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.
- [Network Programmability and Automation](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920042082.do) - Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer
- [Ansible: Up and Running](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920035626.do) - Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way
# Vendor Agnoistic Products
- [Apstra](http://www.apstra.com/products/) - 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.
- [Glue](http://gluenetworks.com/about-us-the-glue-team/) - 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.
# Network Vendor Products
- [Cisco Merkai](https://meraki.cisco.com/) - Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud controlled WiFi, routing, and security. Secure and scalable, Cisco Meraki enterprise networks simply work
- [Viptela]
- [Talari]
# Podcast
- [Software Gone Wild](https://www.ipspace.net/Podcast/Software_Gone_Wild) - Software Gone Wild is focusing on architectures, solutions and technologies that real networking engineers use in production networks.
# Contributing
Contributions are most welcome!
This list is just getting started, please contribute to make it super awesome.
