For those who were curious about the experience, background story, and other aspects of the book, I have put together this list of Q&A's based on what people have asked me. I will add to the list when new questions arises.
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Q. What is the motivation for the book?
A. When I was writing about the book, I try to answer the question of, "If I am a network engineer trying to learn about automation and SDN, what would I need to know?" In other words, this is the book I wish I had a few years ago when I started down the network automation and SDN path. I hope to help others to avoid the mistakes I made and shorten the learning curve.
Q. How did you get the opportunity from Packt Publishing?
A. This blog! I think the OpenFlow Tutorial entry along with some of the other work I have done for InternetworkExpert opened the door for me on this one.
Q. What is the book about?
A. You can read the book description here. Basically it is about how to automate network tasks with Python packages.
Q. Where can I get the book?
A. I am glad you asked! You can get the book here on Packt website or Amazon.
Q. Can I take a look at the book first before purchase?
A. Sure! This book is part of the Packt subscription library that you can start a 30-day free trial for.
Q. Where can I get the code used in the book?
A. You can get the code from the book page as well as the Packt GitHub repository.
Q. What are you doing with the money from the book?
A. All royalties from the book will be donated to charity, although I have not decided where yet.
Q. Are you interested in writing more books?
A. Absolutely! But I need to take a break first to recharge. :)
I loved the book. I wonder if anybody was able to run pexpect on windows.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading Luis. Technically Pexpect works on Windows (http://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html#windows), but it does not work in our use case for spawning child processes:
ReplyDelete"pexpect.spawn and pexpect.run() are not available on Windows, as they rely on Unix pseudoterminals (ptys). Cross platform code must not use these."
There are three workarounds I can think of, the first two I have tried and know works, the third I have done a little bit but not end-to-end:
1. Cygwin + Pexpect
2. *Nix Virtual Machines on Windows with Network Bridge mode so you know the source IP.
3. Windows 10 Ubuntu subsystem (http://blog.pythonicneteng.com/2016/08/how-to-enable-bash-on-windows-10-in-5.html)
Hope it helps,
Eric
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