Learning a new framework & its libraries can be a daunting task. Thankfully, the team has put together lots of useful resources for you to learn, hands dirty.

DevNet Sandbox

DevNet Sandbox team provides a reservable sandbox environment for pyATS, including a development environment with pyATS pre-installed, a ready to use virtual topology powered by Cisco CML, and a pyATS XPRESSO UI Dashboard for CI/CD tinkering. You can reserve this environment here:

https://devnetsandbox.cisco.com/RM/Diagram/Index/756b58ba-15aa-4228-8a41-f94f684330e7?diagramType=Topology

Learning Labs

As part of DevNet, DevNet Learning Labs provides you with a guided-path on how to get started with pyATS & Genie, using DevNet Sandboxes.

DIY on your Laptop

This content is ready for hands-on consumption, straight in your laptop:

1. Stateful Network Validation using pyATS and RobotFramework - for network engineers with zero programming experience.

2. NetDevOps Programming with pyATS for Beginners - for network engineers with a little bit of Python programming experience

3. Building pyATS Parsers - walking through how to build parsers for the framework

4. Everybody Can Automate Now - for scripting with ROBOT Framework

5. Interactive Learning: Using pyATS to Verify Your Network

Podcasts & Videos

• Getting Started - excellent introduction from @data_knox

• Introduction to Writing Network Tests with pyATS - Hank Preston @Pycon2020

• Network Assurance: pyATS for Network Engineers - high level introduction of the framework, with various use-cases and analysis examples.

• Everybody Can NetDevOps Now - Network automation using pyATS - for everyone, using latest features in 2020.

• Everybody Can Automate Now - network automation for non-programmers, using ROBOTFramework, leveraging pyATS libraries.

• Is Your Network Working? Guess No More with Python Testing Powered by pyATS - NetDevOps Live! S2E8

• Profile, test and verify your network is running smoothly with pyATS - NetDevOps Live! S1E8

• Genie makes all your network automation wishes come true - By David Bombal (@davidbombal)

• Python, Genie and CSV Files = Easy Network Automation (DevNet) - By David Bombal (@davidbombal)

• Profile and Test your Network with Genie CLI - No Code Needed! - By Hank Preston (@hfpreston)

• Network Automation with pyATS and Cisco DNA Center

• Python parsing with pyATS - Cisco Automation Made Easy from @data_knox

Blog Posts

• Cisco Blogs: pyATS
• Ansible + pyATS
• Ansible For Network Engineers