Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals (Networking Technology)

I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a comprehensive guide on various topics under the main umbrella term of network automation. The book consists of 9 sections called parts; this starts from an introduction part all the way to another part called "looking ahead" (the future). Here are the parts that I reviewed: 1- Part 2: Linux: Although I didn't need the intro to Linux section but I found it really nice to have an intro section for the beginners. The part ends with traditional Linux automation techniques which I liked. 2- Part 3: Python: Extensively covers coding using Python but takes a practical approach beyond just the keywords and basics. I liked their approach very much although I'd love to have more and more examples which would probably take a separate book. But for the current scope, I felt quite satisfied. 3- Part 5: I became a huge of the last two chapters; JSON and YAML. I'd keep the JSON part as a reference but the YAML part can easily be used for Ansible development. This would help people pursuing RHCE and other certs. 4- Part 6: My favorite part of the book and its chapter on YANG models. This along with the later chapters on NETCONF will remain my favorite and most useful parts of the book for me.

Good to get you rolling into some automation. Jeff Doyle is a Cisco fellow. The goat of routing and switching.

This book is a classic, in the sense that it was written in the classic way that books were written...like Routing TCPIP was when it was released and its a classic because it will not age easily. The classic method of book writing is the academic way, where a topic is covered from all different perspectives...in depth. Its not like many of the books we see nowadays where in the style of a magazine, picking up small pieces from here and there, leaving the reader to go fish for a lot more later, still feeling thirsty after investing time reading a book. The chapters were designed to give the reader all the pre-requisites to transform the reader from the classic network engineer role to a well rounded moden NetDevOps engineer with a medium to advanced level understanding of software defined networking...To make my point clear, its going to cover the many different but inter related layers of the networking stack, connecting these layers together as well, so if you are wondering what are NetDevOps solutions out there, you'll find that covered, if you are wondering what are the automation and orchestration frameworks and solutions that are part of the NetDevOps transformation of the industry, it will cover that too, if you are wondering what actually are the underlying technologies used to build these solutions and frameworks, it is all in there, whether its netconf, yang, http, linux, python, ansible, gRPC, SP, Enterprise, Datacenter, ACI, NSO, DNA....etc The book contents and reading flow were modeled after Routing TCPIP and other Software classics. So basically you get the full coverage of topics, with the exact dose of theory and practice needed to understand what has been happening to the networking industry for the past decade. I highly recommend it to any network executive, admin or engineer that feels pressure to learn a lot of new concepts that are fairly foreign, concepts that are considered wildly new from the classic networking knowledge of protocols and CLI guides, it will hand hold a networking CCIE/CCNP level person to get up to speed with their vendor innovations and their own organization software teams....even if the reader never had a software engineering background.

If you work in enterprise networking, you know that automation is the future. This book is an easy read and I have found it to be pretty comprehensive in several areas even though this is just "fundamentals". I highly recommend this book.

Returned product. After market label pasted across the spine and face of the book