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    Automate Your Network

    with Nornir
    Python automation framework

    Dmitry Figol, Network Automation Engineer


    @dmfigol

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    Agenda

    • What is Nornir
    • Nornir vs Ansible
    • Demo
    • Wrap-up

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    Code

    https://github.com/dmfigol/nornir-apps

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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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    Pluggable multi-
    threaded Python
    framework with
    Nornir inventory
    management to help
    operate collections
    of devices

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    Why not Ansible

    • Tasks written in domain-specific language (DSL)


    • Programming in YAML

    • Troubleshooting, debugging and maintaining playbooks is hard


    • Inflexible: problems with extensibility and non-trivial tasks
    • Slow and resource-intensive
    • Breaking changes between versions

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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


    • Fast thanks to threads

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    Nornir advantages (cont.)

    • Re-uses existing libraries for the connections: netmiko, napalm,


    ncclient
    • 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

    • Backwards compatibility
    • Semantic versioning is strictly followed

    • Modern tooling used with CI to improve code quality: linting, code


    style, static type checking, unit testing
    • Good documentation
    • Even examples in tutorials are being automatically tested as part of CI

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    Use-cases
    • Run as a standalone script
    • Integrate with a web framework
    • Integrate with pytest for network testing

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    Latest features

    • NETCONF support (integration with ncclient)


    • Processors – functions executed on events

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    What we are working on
    • Exploring asyncio support
    • Customization of task runners (e.g. retry mechanisms)

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    Demo
    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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    Resources and where to go next

    • Code: https://github.com/dmfigol/nornir-apps
    • Nornir documentation: https://nornir.readthedocs.io
    • 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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