August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
828 pages
22h 35m
English
book
Network Programmability and Automation, 2nd Edition
by Matt Oswalt, Christian Adell, Scott S. Lowe, Jason Edelman
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Preface
Welcome to Network Programmability and Automation!
The networking industry is changing dramatically. The drive for organizations and networking professionals to embrace the ideas and concepts of network programmability and automation is greater now than perhaps it has ever been, fueled by a revolution in new protocols, new technologies, new delivery models, and a need for businesses to be more agile and more flexible in order to compete. But what is network programmability and automation? Let’s start this book by answering that question.
What This Book Covers
As its title indicates, this book is focused on network programmability and automation. At its core, network programmability and automation is about simplifying the tasks involved in configuring, managing, and operating network equipment, network topologies, network services, and network connectivity.
Many, many components are involved—including operating systems that are now seeing far broader use in networking than in the past, new methodologies like continuous integration, and tools that formerly might have fallen only in the realm of the system administrator (tools like source code control and configuration management systems). Because all of these play a part in the core definition of network programmability and automation, we cover all these topics. Our goal for this book is to enable you to establish a foundation of knowledge around network programmability and automation.
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