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    #CLUS

    Automate your
    network with Nornir
    Python automation framework

    Dmitry Figol, SE EN Sales — Programmability


    @dmfigol
    DEVNET-2192

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    Agenda
    • What is Nornir
    • Nornir vs Ansible
    • Demo
    • Summary

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    About me

    @dmfigol
    dmfigol
    dmfigol.me
    dmfigol
    dmfigol

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    ”I am not sure why they are
    reinventing Ansible”
    Me in 2018

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    ”I would like to help you maintain
    Nornir”
    Also me 9 months later

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    Flexible and
    scalable network
    automation
    framework where
    Nornir everything is done in
    Python

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    Why not Ansible
    • Tasks written in domain-specific language (DSL)
    • Programming in YAML?
    • Troubleshooting and debugging playbooks is hard
    • Poor architecture for local execution leading to scalability problems
    • Poor developer experience
    • CLI as the primary entry point

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    Nornir advantages
    • Provides an abstraction for inventory (hosts and groups) and
    concurrent task execution
    • Everything in Python (or Golang, check out Gornir)
    • Just another Python library to import
    • Great flexibility and extensibility
    • Very fast due to use of threads

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    Nornir advantages (cont.)
    • Re-uses existing libraries for the connections: netmiko, napalm
    • Caches, re-uses and automatically closes opened connections
    • Use any troubleshooting, debugging or testing tool from Python
    ecosystem
    • Easy hosts filtering based on any attribute or combination of
    attributes
    • Easy integration with other Python frameworks (Flask, Django,
    pytest)

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    ”The more I work with Nornir; the
    more I like it.
    The more I work with Ansible;
    the more I like Nornir”
    Kirk Byers
    Twin Bridges Technology

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    Development focus
    • Small codebase (4k lines of code) which is easy to maintain
    • Backwards compatibility
    • Semantic versioning is strictly followed
    • Modern tooling used with CI to improve code quality: linting, code
    style, static type checking, unit testing
    • Detailed documentation
    • Even examples in tutorials are being automatically tested as part of
    CI

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    Use-cases
    • Run as a standalone script (print results, save to a file, etc.)
    • Integrate with a web framework
    • Integrate with pytest for network testing

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    Demo
    https://github.com/dmfigol/nornir-workshop
    Wrap-up
    Summary
    • Nornir is a flexible multi-threaded Python network automation
    framework which abstracts inventory and task execution
    • Everything is in Python so it’s very easy to integrate with any other
    Python code

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    Where to go next
    • Nornir documentation: https://nornir.readthedocs.io
    • Using Nornir for OS Upgrades by Kirk Byers
    • Talk to the developer team on:
    • Our forum: https://nornir.discourse.group/
    • Network To Code Slack, #nornir channel

    • Open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/nornir-


    automation/nornir

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    Continue your education

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    Thank you

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