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README.md

Awesome Network Automation

A curated list of awesome about Network Automation

Awesome Network Automation

Community

Ansbile Google Groups - Welcome to Ansible's mailing list / forum!
IRC Ansible - Ansible IRC Channels
NTC Slack - Slack community around Network Automation
Salt Users - The official forum of the Salt community.
Salt Networks - The goal of this group is to have a central place to communicate goals about network device automation with SaltStack.
Salt Formulas - The SaltStack formulas working group.

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.
London Network Automation Meetup - A community of network engineers, who have interest in the new buzz of network automation.
SaltConf - A 4 days event including two days of SaltStack customer case studies and SaltStack technical deep dives.

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.
Mircea Ulinic - Learn more about cross-vendor event-driven network automation and orchestration.

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
Mircea Ulinic - Random thoughts of Mircea Ulinic. May include event-driven network automation, vendor bashing or machine learning (TBD).
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
Online Validator
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 IOS-XR - Cisco IOS-XR Docs
Infoblox - Externally hosted Infoblox API docs

Open Source Projects

Ansible

Getting Started and Basics
Examples
Advanced and Tools

Salt

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

Pre-written Salt States (Formulas)

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.

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
napalm-logs - Cross-vendor normalisation for network syslog messages, following the OpenConfig and IETF YANG models.
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
Marathon
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.
NSoT - 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.

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.
Packet Pushers - A network of technology podcasts where real engineers get into the weeds about networking, data centers, and enterprise IT.

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