Network Programmability and Automation: Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer 1st Edition

I'm about 150 pages in to this book. I think the book is very straight to the point. Its name basically says it. Python, Linux, Automation in general, etc, are all being covered and the authors do a great job in keeping the examples and teachings directly geared towards networking. It's pretty easy to read in my opinion. Very well organized. Meant to be modular, meaning the authors state that you should be able to skip to chapters if you need to without having to rely on the previous chapters.What I'd recommend, before diving too heavily in to this book is to actually write a simple python program. Then when you go in to that chapter, it's like a lightning round. Also, if you've had very little or no Linux experience, please install it on something and play around. Follow along with the Linux chapter and solidify what he's teaching. After the Python chapter (#4), I would think you're most likely learning something new, requiring a bit of knowledge from the first 4 chapters.

I've been interested in upgrading my automation skills for a couple years now, but it is a pretty intimidating task, especially if you come from a traditional network engineering job with little scripting experience like me. This book covers so many topics that will get you up in running, from basic python, to making mass changes and config management with Ansible, even how to convince your boss this is the way you should stream things. Absolute MUST for any network engineer.

This is a great book that covers a lot of information useful for network engineers. I have been exposed to the topics this book covers over the past 3 years and it really does a good job explaining them. If you are a network engineer you probably already know that SDN is where Network Engineering is headed. If not then get this book and start learning. This book isn't the only book you need to read though, there are many but this is a great start. I gave this 4 stars because the screenshots used in the examples are poorly printed. You can barely see the image. I don't' care they are not in color, but they could have at least done a better job ensuring the images are viewable.

Thus covered the basics and intermediates of everything I needed to know. Good read for a16 hour flight . Thanks

This should be the de facto book for anyone who want to start reading about network automation. Every chapter is very well written and content is lucid. This book will teach you something about everything related to network automation. And the best part, unlike other specific vendor books, this book is vendor agnostic.

Today's networks are more and more ran by software and to be a network engineer requires you to come to terms with that. This book helps a lot. It's been a brilliant read so far and I highly recommend it, especially if you're a network engineer that has very little experience in SDN. This book isn't a step-by-step howto guide, but it is a guide that will help get your mind on the right track.

The content covers everything you need to kick start with python for network engineers, but I am a little bit disappointed on how this is organized. Most of the topics covered in the book are available online. Why should I bother buying this book if I cannot get good recipes for automation? Plus, The book is printed in B&W. How in the world could people still print book in B&W? with illustrations inside ? not fun to read at all ...

Infrastructure as code is a complicated topic, specially on the grounds of networking, but this book brings a lot of light with a little help of Python programming. It's a great start to anyone seriously interested on provisioning automated infrastructure.