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-# awesome-network-automation
+# Awesome Network Automation [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
-An awesome list about Network Automation
+
+A curated list of awesome about Network Automation
+
+- [Awesome Network Automation](#awesome-network-automation)
+  - [Introduction](#introduction)
+  - [Community](#community)
+  - [Training](#training)
+  - [Events / Meetup](#events--meetup)
+
+# Community
+
+- [NTC Slack](http://slack.networktocode.com) - Slack community around Network Automation 
+- [IRC Ansible](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/community.html#irc-channel) - Ansible IRC Channels
+- [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
+
+### 
+
+## 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
+- [NetTools](https://github.com/crisponions/NetTools) - Simple network python scripts
+- [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.
+
+# Configuration Management
+ - www.solarwinds.com/network-configuration-manager
+ - https://www.manageengine.com/network-configuration-manager/
+ - http://www.rconfig.com/
+
+# Books
+
+- [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.
+
+
+# License
+
+
+