After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Articulate the role network automation and programmability play in the context of end
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• end network management and operations Define and differentiate between waterfall and agile software development methodologies Interpret and troubleshoot Python scripts with fundamental programming constructs built for network automation use cases Describe how DevOps principles, tools, and pipelines can be applied to network operations Understand the role of network automation development environments and associated technologies such as Python virtual environments, Vagrant, and Docker Understand and construct HTTP
• based API calls to network devices Articulate the differences among and common use cases for XML, JSON, YAML, and protobuf Construct and interpret Python scripts using the Python requests module to automate devices that have HTTP
• based APIs Understand the role YANG plays in network automation Understand that a number of tools exist to simplify working with YANG models Describe the functionality of RESTCONF and NETCONF and the differences between them Construct Ansible playbooks to configure network devices and retrieve operational state data from them Build Jinja2 templates and YAML data structures to generate desired state configurations