Expert Tutorials
Expert Tutorials¶
Welcome to the expert-level tutorials for production network automation. Here you'll find in-depth guides for building, validating, and operating enterprise-grade automation solutions.
Coming From the Intermediate Track?
The Capstone Project is the bridge. It combines the data modelling quartet, Nornir, PyATS and the reliability patterns into one working deployment pipeline, and each expert tutorial below extends it in a specific direction — vaulting its credentials, making it asynchronous, shipping its audit records, or sourcing its intent from NetBox.
Build the pipeline first, and these pages become changes to something you already have rather than isolated techniques.
📚 What You'll Learn¶
By working through these expert tutorials, you will:
- Design and implement scalable, production-grade network automation workflows
- Master advanced Python async patterns for high-performance operations
- Integrate with enterprise tools like NetBox, ServiceNow, and Cisco DNA Center
- Build robust CI/CD and GitOps pipelines for safe, auditable automation
- Secure your automation with enterprise-grade secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Validate and test network changes at scale using Nornir and PyATS
- Orchestrate multi-tool workflows and build abstraction layers for portability
- Apply best practices for error handling, rollback, compliance, and observability
- Empower your team with transparent, measurable, and safe automation
✅ Available Expert Tutorials¶
- Asyncio for Network Automation: High-Performance, Non-Blocking Operations
- Circuit Breakers and Backpressure for Network Automation
- Dependency Management and Task Orchestration
- DevOps and Observability for Network Automation: CI/CD, GitOps, and Monitoring
- Incident Response Automation
- Nornir + PyATS Integration: Enterprise-Grade Automation and Validation
- Secure Credential Vaulting for Network Automation: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and Beyond
- Tool Ecosystem Integration for Network Automation: Netbox, ServiceNow, DNA Center, and More
🚧 Coming Soon¶
- NAPALM Multi-Vendor Abstraction
- Certificate-Based Authentication & PKI
- Role-Based Access Control in Automation
- Database & Time-Series Integration (PostgreSQL, InfluxDB)
- API Development for Automation
- Webhook Listeners & Event-Driven Automation
- Message Queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Distributed Tracing & Observability (OpenTelemetry)
- Alerting Integration (PagerDuty, Slack, Teams)
- Containerization & Kubernetes Orchestration
- Blue-Green Deployments & Change Windows
- Multi-Site Orchestration
- Compliance Auditing & CIS Benchmarks
- Meraki Dashboard API Automation
- Streaming Telemetry with gRPC
Check back soon for more detailed tutorials and complete code examples!