Awesome Network Automation

Network Automation is a cross between the discipline of Network Infrastructure and the discipline of Programming. This list was created to serve as a one-stop shop for information related to Network Automation.

• Awesome Network Automation
• Community
• Events / Meetup
• Training
• Presentations
• Blogs
• Programming Topics
  • Structured Data
    • YAML
    • JSON
    • XML
    • YANG
    • Jinja2
  • API
    • RESTCONF
    • NETCONF
  • Python
  • Go
  • Vendor API Docs
• Open Source Projects
  • Ansible
  • Batfish
  • Chef
  • Clixon
  • Puppet
  • Salt
  • StackStorm
  • SuzieQ
  • Products
  • Library
  • Non-Core Ansible Modules
  • Pre-written Salt States (Formulas)
  • Vendor Abstraction Library
  • Tools
  • Network Telemetry
  • Online Parser
    • Jinja2
    • TextFSM
    • TTP
• Hypervisors and Containers
• Network Emulators
• Network Simulators
• Backups
• IPAM
• Configuration Management
• Books
• Vendor Agnostic Products
• Network Vendor Products
• Podcasts
  • Podcasts Feeds
  • Podcasts Episodes
• Contributing
• License

Community

• Ansible Google Groups - Ansible's mailing list and forum!
• IRC Ansible - Ansible IRC Channels.
• Chef Community - The complete offical list of Chef Community resources.
• Network Automation Forum - A conference focused on Network Automation.
• Network to Code Slack - The NTC Slack is a vendor and product agnostic home/pseudo-home to many popular Network Automation solution repositories, such as Nautobot, NAPALM, Netmiko, Nornir, NSoT, and so on. Over 17,000 members meet here to discuss topics related to Network Automation.
• Puppet Community - The complete offical list of Puppet Community resources.
• Salt Formulas - The SaltStack formulas working group.
• Salt Networks - A centralized group for talking about network device automation with SaltStack.
• Salt Users - The official forum of the Salt community.
• SaltStack Community Slack - The official Slack of Saltstack Project.

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.
• Ansible NYC Meetup - Local NYC Ansible user meetup.
• Chef Summits - Chef community summit schedule.
• London Network Automation Meetup - A community of network engineers, who have interest in the new buzz of network automation.
• Minnesota Network User Group - Minnesota Network User Group, quarterly meetup of network users.
• NANOG - North American Network Operators' Group with fair share of automation presentations/discussions.
• Network to Coders Meetup - Maybe this can pressure NTC to finally setup an event for the 140+ NTC meetup members.
• Puppetize Live - A 24-hour global event including community discussions, presentations, and training. Formerly PuppetConf.
• SaltStack NYC Meetup - Local NYC SaltStack user meetup.
• 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.
• SaltConf - 4 days event including two days of SaltStack customer case studies and SaltStack technical deep dives.

Training

• CML - Training videos @ learningnetwork.cisco.com - Learning and Certifications at Cisco has created a series of in-depth training videos to assist users with installing and operating Cisco Modeling Labs (CML). This video series also provides a few videos on some of the more advanced features that CML offers.
• DevNet Academy - Self-paced e-learning with theory, exercises and quizzes for the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert exam by Luca Gubler.
• DevNet Expert Training - Training resources targeting the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert exam topics, including bootcamp courses by Andreas Baekdahl.
• GNS3 Academy - Instructor David Bombal - Offers an inexpensive set of introductions to Ansible and Python for Network Engineers, among other courses.
• ipSpace.net - Numerous courses, webinars, and videos covering SDN, network automation, cloud computing, virtualization technologies, IPv6, VPNs, and much more.
• Network to Code - Network Automation Training including Python, Ansible, DevOps, and much more.
• Network Programmability Basics - Cisco - Jumpstart your journey into network programmability with this expert-led video course by Cisco DevNet.
• Nick Russo study resources - Collection of DevNet certification study resources, such as study plans and Postman collections.
• Python for Network Engineers - Learn skills that make you better at network automation and that improve your capability to use programming to scale your work.

Presentations

Blogs

• Benoît Claise blog - The Network Automation thoughts of Benoît Claise.
• Coding Packets - The Network Automation thoughts of Brad Searle.
• dravetech.com - The Network Automation thoughts of David Barroso.
• Eric Chou - PythonicNetneg - The Network Automation thoughts of Eric Chou.
• IPEngineer - David Gee - Network automation, software-networking and musings from David Gee.
• ipSpace.net - Ivan Pepelnjak - Network automation blog posts by Ivan Pepelnjak.
• Jason Edelman - The Network Automation thoughts of Jason Edelman.
• Josh-V - The Network Automation thoughts of Josh VanDeraa.
• Mircea Ulinic - Random thoughts of Mircea Ulinic. May include event-driven network automation, vendor bashing or machine learning (TBD).
• MTU Ninja - The Network Automation thoughts of Vincent Bernat.
• Napalm-automation - News and updates about the NAPALM project.
• Network to Code - Network to Code's blog sharing thoughts, ideas, and tips all about network automation.
• Networklore - The Network Automation thoughts of Patrick Ogenstad.
• Network OP - The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Kashin.
• NWMichl Blog - The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Schön.
• Open-Source Routing and Network Simulation - Brian Linkletter - Blog about the open-source network emulation and network simulation tools by Brian Linkletter.
• Packet Coders - The Network Automation thoughts of Rick Donato.
• Packet Life - The Network Automation thoughts of Jeremy Stretch.
• Python for Network Engineers - Articles on Netmiko, NAPALM, and Ansible by Kirk Byers.
• Scott Lowe - The Network Automation thoughts of Scott Lowe.
• Wim Wauters - The Network Automation thoughts of Wim Wauters.

Programming Topics

Structured Data

YAML

• Getting Started and Basics - Introduction to YAML
• Online Validator - Online YAML Parser.
• Sample YAML documents describing common data structures - YAML examples courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak.
• YAML Data Validation with JSON Schema - Explains how JSON schema can be used to validate YAML files and how syntax highlighting can be added to the IDE for the YAML files.
• YAML syntax validator - YAML online parser.
• YAML idiosyncrasies -- Document with the most common YAML idiosyncrasies, hosted under the SaltStack docs, but not specific to Salt or any other tool.

JSON

• Awesome JSON - A curated list of awesome JSON libraries and resources.
• Getting Started and Basics - JSON Basics.
• JSON diff - An online JSON diff tool.
• JSON 2 YAML - An online JSON to YAML conversion