What's the future? Do I have to learn network automation today? Which language? @bigevilbeard shares

Stuart Clark (@bigevilbeard) shares his thoughts about the future, best languages, open source networking and more! Use the menu to jump to specific topics.

Stuart's details: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuarteclark/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigevilbeard

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1. Open Source Networking: 00:37
2. How to manage old devices: 1:05
3. Which libaries: 2:08
4. Pyats: 2:37
5. What is your background and how did automation help you? 3:54
6. How did you transition: 5:28
7. Why did you move from Ansible to Python? 7:38
8. Open Source Networking real world: 8:12
9. What would you start with? 8:55
10. Normir vs NAPALM: 9:49
11. Are certs worthwhile? CCNA / CCNP / CCIE? 10:34
12. Network Automation is a fad - right? Just hype? 12:20
13. Is it a requirement today to learn automation? 13:50
14. Recommended courses: 14:57
15. How many languages should I learn? Should I learn Linux? Python / Golang? 16:23
16. What is Go? 18:12
17. Python vs Go? 19:31
18. Future predictions for certs and learning: 20:34
19. Network Engineer = programming? Or be left behind? 21:48
20. Adapt or die? 23:33
21. You need to go through the pain: 25:10

Netmiko: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko

NAPALM: https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm

Nornir: https://nornir.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Pyats: https://developer.cisco.com/pyats/

Note: Travel and conference access courtesy of Cisco.

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