Ansible's mailing list and forum!

Ansible IRC Channels.

The complete offical list of Chef Community resources.

Discord server for the Infrahub community to discuss infrastructure automation, ask questions, and connect with other…

A conference focused on Network Automation.

The NTC Slack is a vendor and product agnostic home/pseudo-home to many popular Network Automation solution…

The complete offical list of Puppet Community resources.

The official Slack of Saltstack Project.

AWS re:Invent Central is designed to facilitate connections between sponsors and attendees.

AnsibleFest is a day-long conference bringing together Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best…

Local NYC Ansible user meetup.

Chef community summit schedule.

A community of network engineers, who have interest in the new buzz of network automation.

Minnesota Network User Group, quarterly meetup of network users.

North American Network Operators' Group with fair share of automation presentations/discussions.

Maybe this can pressure NTC to finally setup an event for the 140+ NTC meetup members.

A 24-hour global event including community discussions, presentations, and training. Formerly PuppetConf.

Local NYC SaltStack user meetup.

Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and…

4 days event including two days of SaltStack customer case studies and SaltStack technical deep dives.

Learning and Certifications at Cisco has created a series of in-depth training videos to assist users with installing…

Self-paced e-learning with theory, exercises and quizzes for the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert exam by Luca Gubler.

Training resources targeting the Cisco Certified DevNet Expert exam topics, including bootcamp courses by Andreas…

Offers an inexpensive set of introductions to Ansible and Python for Network Engineers, among other courses.

Numerous courses, webinars, and videos covering SDN, network automation, cloud computing, virtualization technologies,…

Hands-on lab using Containerlab, NETCONF, gNMI, and YANG to configure Nokia SR Linux and Arista cEOS devices, focused…

Network Automation Training including Python, Ansible, DevOps, and much more.

Jumpstart your journey into network programmability with this expert-led video course by Cisco DevNet.

Collection of DevNet certification study resources, such as study plans and Postman collections.

Gain Practical Real-World Knowledge with Packet Coders' On-Demand Training, Labs, and Private Code Repositories.

Learn skills that make you better at network automation and that improve your capability to use programming to scale…

Damien Garros, Autocon3

Claus Töpke, NANOG

Ruairi Carroll, DKNOG

Josh VanDeraa, NANOG

Network to Code, Network Field Day 24

Ken Celenza, NANOG

Todd Nightingale (Cisco SVP/GM)

Network to Code hosted Interop event

Network to Code hosted event

Jonah Kowall, NANOG

John Anderson, Network Field Day 21

Damien Garros, Network Field Day 21

Damien Garros, Network Field Day 21

Damien Garros, NANOG 75

Tim Schreyack, NANOG 77

Bart Dworak, AnsibleFest

Logan Best, AnsibleFest

Bart Dworak, AnsibleFest

Ivan Pepelnjak, Troopers slide deck.

Mircea Ulinic, NANOG 69, slide deck.

Carlos Vicente, NANOG 67

David Barroso, SDN and Network Automation Meetup, Stockholm presentation.

Jose Leitao, David Rothera, RIPE71 slide deck.

David Barroso, Elisa Jasinska, NANOG 64 slide deck.

Leslie Carr, RIPE71, slide deck.

The Network Automation thoughts of Benoît Claise.

The Network Automation thoughts of Brad Searle.

The Network Automation thoughts of David Barroso.

The Network Automation thoughts of Eric Chou.

Network automation, software-networking and musings from David Gee.

Network automation blog posts by Ivan Pepelnjak.

The Network Automation thoughts of Jason Edelman.

The Network Automation thoughts of Josh VanDeraa.

Random thoughts of Mircea Ulinic. May include event-driven network automation, vendor bashing or machine learning (TBD).

The Network Automation thoughts of Vincent Bernat.

News and updates about the NAPALM project.

Network to Code's blog sharing thoughts, ideas, and tips all about network automation.

The Network Automation thoughts of Patrick Ogenstad.

The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Kashin.

The Network Automation thoughts of Michael Schön.

Blog about the open-source network emulation and network simulation tools by Brian Linkletter.

Business strategy & technical deep dives for powering infrastructure automation.

The Network Automation thoughts of Rick Donato.

The Network Automation thoughts of Jeremy Stretch.

Articles on Netmiko, NAPALM, and Ansible by Kirk Byers.

The Network Automation thoughts of Scott Lowe.

The Network Automation thoughts of Wim Wauters.

Introduction to YAML

Online YAML Parser.

YAML examples courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak.

Explains how JSON schema can be used to validate YAML files and how syntax highlighting can be added to the IDE for…

YAML online parser.

Document with the most common YAML idiosyncrasies, hosted under the SaltStack docs, but not specific to Salt or any…

A curated list of awesome JSON libraries and resources.

JSON Basics.

An online JSON diff tool.

An online JSON to YAML conversion tool.

Free client-side JSON to YAML converter with configurable output (indent, quoting, null style).

XML to JSON and JSON to XML converter online.

Introducing YANG Data Modeling for the Network.

The IETF RFC on YANG.

NAPALM YANG introduction.

A walkthrough video on how to build your own YANG model.

Base documentation for Jinja2.

YAML examples courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak.

How to combine HTTP path, method and payload for IOS-XE restconf operations.

A view into the payload of NETCONF XML documents and layers.

A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

Learn Python The Hard Way takes you from absolute zero to able to read and write basic Python, giving you the tools to…

Learn Python by Codecademy.

Examples on how to access data in nested structures of lists and dicts.

Experienced Python programmers and enthusiasts from around the world that are eager to share their experience.

Real Python is a leading provider of online Python education. They regularly publish new articles, books, courses, and…

A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

Introduction to programming with Go.

This tool instantly converts JSON into a Go type definition.

This tool instantly converts YAML into a Go type definition.

The Arista Command eAPI is a simple and complete API that allows you to configure and monitor your Arista switches.

Online documentation of Cisco DNA Center Platform API.

Cisco IOS XE REST API Management Reference Guide.

Documentation for Plug and Play, Guestshell, Python API, EEM, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI/gNOI, gRPC and Application…

Cisco IOS-XR API Docs only.; NX_API Coming soon - Coming Soon.

Documentation Blogs and Tutorials on all things IOS-XR An Open, Extensible and Stable Cloud-Scale Network Operating…

Main DEVNET page for NX-API docs.

Checkpoint Management REST API docs.

Cumulus Networks REST API docs.

Documentation and examples for ExtremeSwitching ExtremeXOS RESTCONF API.

Documentation for writing Python applications that run on ExtremeXOS based switches.

REST API User Guide, Version 13.0.0.

and Infoblox REST API

JUNOS REST API Guide.

Manage network environments within Meraki's cloud management tools.

Documentation of changes to API endpoints.

PAN-OS 8.0 XML API Reference.

Learn Git Branching helps learn Git concepts through a series of small interactive lessons in which the learner is…

This is a sandbox for practicing any git concepts you desire. Provides a shell and visual feedback of the results of…

Regular Expressions 101 provides tools for developing and testing any regex you need in whatever language you select.…

W3 Schools Python RegEx section is a straightforward and easy cheatsheet for developing regexes.

YouTube video by Jason Edelman of NetworkToCode introducing the ios_config Ansible module

Ansible playbooks geared towards network engineers, courtesy of Ivan Pepelnjak.

AVD is an extensible data model that defines Arista’s Unified Cloud Network architecture as “code”.

ANTA is a Python framework that automates tests for Arista devices.

Batfish.org home page with tutorials, talks and technical papers detailing the research behind Batfish.

Getting Started Documentation for Batfish.

Jupyter Notebooks showing how to use Batfish for configuration, ACL, routing, forwarding, etc... analysis.

YouTube videos explaining how to use Batfish.

Using Chef Client with Cisco NX-OS

Clixon home page with links to the different projects with code and documentation.

Clixon provides an interactive CLI, NETCONF, and RESTCONF configuration interface for a YANG-based device.

The Clixon controller is an open-source tool for network automation of devices based on NETCONF and YANG.

Infrahub - A new approach to Infrastructure Management.

Including overview, getting started, and FAQ.

My experiences of managing a Cisco switch with Puppet.

The NAPALM-Salt Repository.

proxy minion to manage network with SaltStack and Nornir using Netmiko, NAPALM, Scrapli, Ncclient, PyGNMI, PyATS based…

Salt plugin to automate the management and configuration of (network) devices at scale, without running (Proxy) Minions.

Salt in 10 minutes.

Salt high availability and fault tolerance.

Event-driven network automation using Salt: up and running in 60 minutes.

Salt 2016.11 (Carbon) release notes.

Salt 2017.7 (Nitrogen) release notes.

Getting Started Guide walks you through the fundamental concepts you need to learn as you start using SaltStack.

SaltStack Configuration Management.

SaltStack Network Automation Overview.

Using Salt at scale.

StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation commonly used for auto-remediation, security responses,…

Ready to install StackStorm? Here’s an overview of how to get your system up and running.

Various intro, marketing, interviews, and technical product talks.

Documentation repository for latest version of StackStorm.

SGW team talk with StackStorm (including Matt Oswalt) to discuss StackStorm.

All official documentation including project overview, quick start, configuration guide, etc.

Open-source code for the SuzieQ project.

Official youtube home of the SuzieQ project providing community meetups and demonstrations of the project in action.

A vendor-agnostic NMS for carrier-grade network visualization and network automation.

Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform.

netpalm is a ReST broker and abstraction layer for NAPALM, Netmiko, NCCLIENT or a Python Script.

Network Source of Truth (NSoT) is a source of truth database and repository for tracking inventory and metadata of…

Job scheduler and runbook (and Ansible playbook) automation.

Multi-platform ACL generation system with plugin support, YAML-based config, and a Python API. Fork of Capirca.

Multi-platform ACL generation system; can output Juniper/IOS/etc ACLs from the same policy.

Genie Parsers by Cisco

Parse, Audit, Query, Build, and Modify Cisco IOS-style configurations.

Documentation for the VIRL 2 (aka CML) API Client. Use this library to create Python scripts to interact with CML.

Easy to use and very fast SNMP library that uses Net-SNMP.

FreeZTP is an open-source Zero-Touch Provisioning system for Cisco IOS campus switches and routers.

gNMI CLI client and collector.

Hierarchical Configuration is a Python library that is able to take a running configuration of a network device,…

Generate d3.js based Network Diagram from JSON data.

A full-featured template engine for Python.

NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support) is a Python library that…

A library to generate diagrams in yWorks GraphML, diagrams.net/draw.io or JSON formats using structured data or show…

Network address manipulation that supports a number of techniques (supernetting and subnetting).

Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices.

A Python library that is a collection of functions that are used in the common network automation tasks.

Nornir is a pure Python automation framework intended to be used directly from Python.

Network Unit Testing System is a Pytest plugin enabling writing network tests with YAML files.

Pure Python implementation of gNMI client to interact with network functions.

SEC is an event correlation tool for advanced event processing which can be harnessed for event log monitoring, for…

CLI tool and Python module for parsing semi-structured text into structured data. Similar syntax to Jinja templating,…

Python module for parsing semi-structured text into Python tables.

Python package that helps translate YANG data models to Python.

Junos OS modules for Ansible.

Ansible module to modify MySQL database records.

Ansible Runtime Analysis.

Ansible module to work with FortiManager.

Ansible module to work with Infoblox.

Ansible module, SNMP MIB files, and YANG files for OcNOS.

Collection of Ansible modules that use napalm to retrieve data or modify configuration on networking devices.

Ansible module to work with Netscalers.

Multi-vendor Ansible modules for Network Automation.

Ansible modules for working with Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS.

Salt formula to simplify the installation of the necessary packages and system dependencies for NAPALM.

Formula to manage the NTP configuration on network devices, following the OpenConfig system YANG model.

Brocade specific (MLX/VDX/ICX/CER/CES) CLI driver (Telnet & SSH).

Python library for Arista CVP.

Python library for Cisco DNA Center Platform API.

Python SDK for configuration and monitoring of F5 BIG-IP devices via the iControl REST API.

Python wrapper for REST API

Go wrapper for REST API

Multi-tool set for Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, Panorama, WildFire and AutoFocus.

Device framework for interacting with Palo Alto Networks devices.

Python library for Arista EOS.

Python library for Fortinet.

Python library for Cisco IOSXR.

Python library focused on tasks related to device level and OS management.

Python library for Junos automation.

Open-source network validation application. Multi-vendor configuration parser with a detailed modeled based simulation…

Create beautiful diagrams in minutes. Simple syntax. Endlessly customizable. D2 is the fastest and easiest way to get…

Draw network diagrams described in YAML files.

Tracks IS-IS topology changes by establishing a GRE tunnel with network devices via a history diagram.

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

Artificially limit bandwidth, delay and loss rate on selected interfaces.

Network Configuration Anonymizer

Network device configuration parser ("industry standard" -> YAML converter).

Collection of useful network automation functions for the CLI.

Tracks OSPF topology changes by establishing a GRE tunnel with network devices via a history diagram.

Python-based Web tool for visualisation of OSPF/ISIS topologies and making a prediction of network behaviour in case…

Made for developers to build time-series-based applications quickly and at scale.

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud.

Telegraf is the open source server agent to help you collect metrics from your stacks, sensors, and systems.

An open source observability platform.

Online Jinja2 parser. Additional support for Ansible and Salt filters.

Online Jinja2 parser with Ansible, SaltStack and Stackstorm filter support. Jinja2 environment settings can be…

Advanced online rendering tool.

Online development tool for Jinja2 templates and more.

Online development tool for Jinja2 templates and more.

Simple online TextFSM parser with examples.

Online development tool for Jinja2 templates and more.

Simple TTP online parser with easy examples.

Docker is a software technology providing operating system-level virtualization also known as containers, promoted by…

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution build into the Linux Kernel

Proxmox is an open source virtualization platform that provides an easy web interface (and REST API) for KVM and LXC.

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server…

Vagrant enables users to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.

VMware ESXi is a purpose-built bare-metal hypervisor that installs directly onto a physical server.

Cisco Modeling Labs (CML), which replaces VIRL, is a network emulator with both an API and GUI frontend.

Containerlab provides a framework for orchestrating networking labs with containers. It starts the containers, builds…

The Emulated Virtual Environment for Network, Security and DevOps professionals.

Simulate network operating systems in a programmatic and easy way.

Graphical Network Simulator-3.

Mininet creates a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine…

Brings infrastructure-as-code concepts to networking labs. You'll describe your high-level network topology and…

Unified Networking Lab.

Run your favourite virtual routers in docker for convenient labbing, development and testing.

Open-source network validation application. Multi-vendor configuration parser with a detailed modeled based simulation…

Cisco WAE, formerly known as Cariden MATE, provides a multi-vendor network simulation that enables capacity planning…

Forward Enterprise documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an…

Juniper WANDL provides traffic engineering models that enable capacity planning, network optimization and what-if…

Open-source code for the SuzieQ project.

Cidr Is not as Dumb as Rancid.

fetchconfig is a Perl script for retrieving configuration of multiple devices.

Universal framework for device management automation. Eventually a replacement for RANCID... and much more.

Jazigo is a tool written in Go for retrieving configuration for multiple devices, similar to rancid, fetchconfig,…

Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!

RANCID monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards,…

Network device configuration backups and change alerts for the 21st century - inspired by RANCID!

Configuration backup with an easy to use Web GUI. From nothing to backing-up 1000 routers in 15 minutes.

BlueCat provides network intelligence and insight into the relationship between devices, users and IP addresses that…

Automatically maintain an up-to-date inventory of your physical, virtual, and cloud servers and containers, network…

Industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, the category known as DDI.

NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.

nipap is a sleek, intuitive and powerful IP address management system built to handle large amounts of IP addresses.

Network Source of Truth (NSoT) is a source of truth database and repository for tracking inventory and metadata of…

phpIPAM is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and…

TeemIp is an open source, WEB based, IP Adress Management (IPAM) tool that provides comprehensive IP Management…

Network wide CMDB combining single source of truth in YAML, configs in Jinja2 and deployment with Ansible.

Network Configuration Manager is a multi vendor network change, configuration and compliance management (NCCCM)…

Vendor Agnostic NCCM tool with with policy engine and multi-vendor device lifecycle/vulnerability management.…

Free, open source network device configuration management tool, customizable to your needs!

Automated network configuration and compliance management.

Configuration backup with an easy to use Web GUI. From nothing to backing-up 1000 routers in 15 minutes.

Learn Ansible concepts from an industry leading Ansible expert, with associated Vagrant files for ease of learning

Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way.

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is an excellent introduction to programming concepts with a focus on Python. The…

If you want to study, build, or simply validate your thinking about modern cloud native data center networks, this is…

Learn cultural and organizational best practices on how to make a good DevOps team

This pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job companion to Git, the distributed version control system. It provides a…

Learn the Infra as Code principles and design patterns (examples are for Compute not network though)

, First Edition (June 2017 with more SDN-related topics) - Become an expert in implementing advanced, network-related…

Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer.

The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI.

An introduction and practical look at using Salt to automate your network at scale, in a free ebook from O'Reilly.

Step by step guide for getting started with Open Source Network Management tools such as Nautobot, Hashicorp Vault,…

Learn concepts of automating and operating at scale from Google experts.

Learn from the best practices of SRE practitioners who are not working at Google.

Learn the concepts of Agile and DevOps principles.

See the concepts of Agile and DevOps in this fiction story about a typical IT Org.

See the concepts of Agile and DevOps following a Developer viewpoint.

Monitoring & Closed-Loop Automation for Multi-Vendor Networks.

The Apstra Operating System (AOS) is a vendor-agnostic distributed operating system for the data center network that…

NSO (former Tail-f NCS) is a multi-vendor automation and orchestration platform for physical and virtual networks for…

Forward Enterprise documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an…

With Gluware, the Glue Networks vision and team are continuing to trail-blaze at the forefront of the networking…

Intentionet provides a hosted or on-premise network validation software solution based on Batfish. Intentionet Sage's…

Network assurance tool with vendor agnostic network discovery, inventory, modelling and mapping of on-prem and cloud…

Vendor Agnostic NCCM tool with with policy engine and multi-vendor device lifecycle/vulnerability management.…

NetYCE lets you be in control of any and all of your networks, using its unique Design Driven Networking approach. Not…

PacketFront BECS and BBE is a vendor-agnostic network, service and resource orchestration system for residential,…

The enterprise edition of the suzieq open source project.

CloudVision is Arista’s modern, multi-domain management platform that leverages cloud networking principles to deliver…

Cisco DNA Center automates campus networks for faster workflows, faster troubleshooting through more visibility, and…

Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud controlled WiFi, routing, and security. Secure and scalable, Cisco Meraki…

Viptela provides Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology that allows global companies to build…

Cumulus NetQ is a highly-scalable, modern network operations tool set that provides visibility into your overlay and…

Talari Networks SD-WAN technology.

Network to Code automation podcast on the Network Collective feed.

The Journey To Full Stack.

Software Gone Wild is focusing on architectures, solutions and technologies that real networking engineers use in…

GRASSROOTS AUTOMATION.

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code with Damien Garros and Ken Celenza.

The Current State Of Network Automation & Telemetry.

Git For Ops People with Damien Garros.

David Barroso, Kirk Byers, and Dmitri Figol on Nornir.

Creating A Single Source Of Truth For Network Automation with Tim Schreyack.

Network Testing With ToDD.

Netmiko & NAPALM For Network Automation.

Practical YANG For Network Automation.

Mastering Python Networking – The Book.

Kirk Byers on Network Automation with Python & Ansible.

Intro to Python & Automation for Network Engineers.

Automation & Orchestration In Networking.

Design & Build 13: Network Orchestration with Salt.

The Business Impact Of Network Automation.

Show 368: Radical Change, DevOps & Automation.

Show 402 - Building A Network Automation Framework

Scrapli Is A Netmiko Alternative - Show 532 with Carl Montanari and Dmitry Figol.

Ansible Or Terraform: Choose One with Josh VanDeraa and Ned Bellavance.

NAPALM with David Barroso and Mircea Ulinic.

Network Automation At Enterprise Scale With Python - Episode 232 with Antoine Fourmy.

Pythonic Networks with NAPALM.

Teaching Python to network engineers