Description
The Course Name: APFISP-Advanced Programming For Internet Service Provider Backbone Solutions with Python v3.0
The Duration: 5 Days
The Overview:
The purpose of this course is to teach participants programming knowledge for using at Cisco IOS-XR Solutions.
What You Will Learn:
This course is specifically designed for non-programmer IT administrators who want to gain the knowledge, skills and ability to write programs with Python to interact with different devices and services through RESFful APIs for IOS-XR Solutions.
The Course Index:
Day 1
- What is Cloud Computing
- Understanding Cloud
- Layers of Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) Types of clouds (Public, Private, Hybrid)
- Cloud Management Platforms (CMP)
- OpenStack Introduction
- SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN)
- What is SDN, really
- Why SDN?
- Separation of Control and Data planes
- OpenFlow Introduction
- SDN Controllers
- Players in the SDN Ecosystem
- SDN Open Source Programming Introduction
- Comparing different programming languages
- Why Python?
- Python2 vs. Python3
- Installing Python
- Interactive Python Interpreter
- Python Script
- Reserved Words
- Basic Syntax
- Lines
- Comments
- Errors (syntax, exceptions)
- Numeric Types
- Mutable vs. Immutable Objects
- Naming Objects (Identifiers)
Day 2
- Strings
- String Methods
- Formatting strings
- Reading From Input
- Boolean
- Built-in Functions
- Type Conversion
- Statements
- Operators
- Operators Precedence
- Flow Control and Decision Making
- Code Blocks and Indentation
- While Loop
- Loop Control Statements (break, continue, pass)
- Lists and Tuples
- Iteration
- List Operations and Methods
- Nested lists
- Packing and Unpacking
Day 3
- Dictionaries
- Dictionary Operations and Methods
- Nested dictionaries
- Bytes and Bytearray
- Unicode in Python v3.0
- User Defined Functions
- Function Positional Arguments
- Function Keyword Arguments
- Function Arguments Default Value
- Variable Length Arguments
- Scope of Variables
- Modules
- What is a module?
- import Statement
- Locating Modules dir( ) Function
- Installing modules with pip
- Some useful modules (sys, os, math, ip address,…)
- Working with files
- STDIN and STDOUT
- Exceptions
- Regular Expressions
- Data formats (XML, JSON)
Day 4
- Sockets programming
- Automating Device Operations with SSH
- HTTP
- HTTP Methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
- HTTP Request
- HTTP Response
- Basic Authentication
- Cookies
- Requests Module
- HTTPS
Day 5
- REST APIs
- Postman
- Working with simple RESTful APIs
- APIC-EM API
- Multi threading
- IOS-XR and IOS-XR Programmability
- IOS XR Programmability:
- IOS XR NETCONF API
- Initial System Configuration Using NETCONF
- Interior Routing Configuration Using gRPC
- MPLS and BGP Configuration Using Model-Drive Python APIs
- IP Reachability Automation Using Ansible