awesome-network-automation/README.md

Awesome Network Automation

A curated list of awesome about Network Automation

• Awesome Network Automation
  • Community
  • Training
  • Events / Meetup
  • Blogs
  • Programming Topics
  • Open Source Projects
  • Hypervisor's
  • Backups
  • IPAM
  • Configuration Management
  • Books
  • Vendor Agnostic Products
  • Network Vendor Products
  • Podcasts
  • Contributing
  • License

Community

• Ansbile Google Groups - Welcome to Ansible's mailing list / forum!
• IRC Ansible - Ansible IRC Channels
• NTC Slack - Slack community around Network Automation

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.
• 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.

Training

• IP Space - On ipSpace.net you'll find numerous courses, webinars, and videos covering SDN, cloud computing, virtualization technologies, IPv6 and VPNs.
• NTC - Network Automation Training including Python, Ansible, DevOps, and much more.
• Python for Network Engineers - You will learn skills that make you better at network automation and that improve your capability to use programming to scale your work.

Blogs

• cidrblock - The Network Automation thoughts of Bradley A. Thornton
• Coding Networker - The Network Automation thoughts of Henry Ölsner
• Coding Packets - The Network Automation thoughts of Brad Searle
• Jason Edelman - The Network Automation thoughts of Jason Edelman
• IPEngineer - David Gee - Network automation, software-networking and musings from David Gee
• mirceaulinic - The Network Automation thoughts of Mircea Ulinic
• Napalm-automation - News and updates about the NAPALM project
• Networklore - The Network Automation thoughts of Patrick Ogenstad
• Networker and Coder - The Network Automation thoughts of Csilla Bessenyei
• Network OP - The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Kashin
• Packet Life - The Network Automation thoughts of Jeremy Strech
• Project 10 - The Network Automation thoughts of Gabriele Gerbino
• Scott Lowe - The Network Automation thoughts of Scott Lowe

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

Vendor API Docs

• Cisco IOSXR - Cisco IOS-XR Docs
• Infoblox - Externally hosted Infoblox API docs

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

• 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 - ToDD is an extensible framework for providing natively distributed testing on demand.
• Nuts - Network Unit Testing System automates tests in the network similar to unit tests.
• 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.
• pyNMS - pyNMS is a vendor-agnostic Network Management System for network visualization, inventory and graphical automation.

Library

• Capirca - Multi-platform ACL generation system; can output Juniper/IOS/etc ACLs from the same policy
• ciscoconfparse - Parse, Audit, Query, Build, and Modify Cisco IOS-style configurations
• Condoor - This is a python module providing access to Cisco devices over Telnet and SSH
• EasySNMP - Easy to use and very fast SNMP library that uses Net-SNMP
• JINJA2 - Jinja2 is 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.
• 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
• TextFSM - Python module for parsing semi-structured text into python tables.

Non-Core Ansible Modules

• ansible-junos-stdlib - Junos modules for Ansible
• Fortimanager-Ansible - Ansible Module to work with Fortimanager
• Infoblox-Ansible - A new Ansible Module to work with Infoblox.
• 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

Vendor Abstraction Library

• clicrud - Brocade specific (MLX/VDX/ICX/CER/CES) CLI driver (Telnet & SSH)
• infoblox - Python library for Infoblox
• pandevice - Python library for Palo Alto
• pyeapi - Python library for Arista EOS
• pyfg - Python library for Fortinet
• pyiosxr - Python library for Cisco IOSXR
• pynxos - Python library for Cisco NXOS
• py-junos-exnc - Python library for Junos automation

Tools

• BGP-Dashboard - BGP Dashboard and Monitoring Web Application
• Net-Config - Automation framework for network devices
• NetSpark-Scripts - Netmiko-based scripts to assist the Network Administrators and Engineers of the world!
• NetTools - Simple network python scripts
• Network-CI - Proof of Concept of CI/CD methodology applied to traditional non-SDN network topologies

Hypervisor's

• Docker
• Vagrant
• Kubernetes
• VirtualBox
• ESX

Backups

• Cidr - Cidr Is not as Dumb as Rancid
• Gerty - A 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 - 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!
• 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.
• haci - HaCi is an IP Address / Network Administration (IPAM) Tool with IPv6 support.
• infoblox - 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 - nipap is a sleek, intuitive and powerful IP address management system built to handle large amounts of IP addresses.
• phpipam - phpipam is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and useful IP address management.

Configuration Management

• Solarwinds
• ManageEngine
• Rconfig
• Unimus - Network-wide configuration search and config diff over time in an easy to use web GUI.

Books

• Network Programmability and Automation - Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer
• Ansible: Up and Running - Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way

Vendor Agnostic Products

• 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.
• 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.

Network Vendor Products

• Cisco Merkai - Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud controlled WiFi, routing, and security. Secure and scalable, Cisco Meraki enterprise networks simply work
• Viptela - Viptela provides Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology that allows global companies to build cost-effective WANs
• Talari - Talari Networks SD-WAN technology

Podcasts

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

Contributing

Contributions about network automation are most welcome!

This list is just getting started, please contribute to make it super awesome.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, see LICENSE file for more detail