From the course: NetOps (DevOps for Network Engineers): Automating Networks
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Network testing with pyATS
From the course: NetOps (DevOps for Network Engineers): Automating Networks
Network testing with pyATS
- [Instructor] Let's take a look at one of the exciting network testing framework, pyATS. It is a framework released by Cisco from their years and years of work internally for internal network testing, and released to the community to be used. It is a very powerful framework. Have various parsers, generates nice looking reports, triggers, and many other different components. The parser part is open source. So the community could freely contribute to the framework for different parsers, it doesn't have to be Cisco-specific. It does have a bit of a learning curve just because it's such a powerful framework, but I would highly recommend any DevOps, engineers with network focus to take a look at pyATS. Look at some of the reusable parsers, triggers, and the usage. And to see if this could be added to your testing framework and library. PyATS could be used in a Docker container, which is right up to our automation and DevOps…
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