Ultra Valuable uv for Dynamic, On-Demand Python Virtual Environments

What is UV? Astral’s uv is a fast, all-in-one Python package and project manager written in Rust that unifies and accelerates Python development workflows by replacing multiple tools and actions including: pip, pip-tools, poetry, pipx, pyenv, virtualenv, and twine initializing a git repository creating base files like .gitignore and pyproject.toml (think of this as requirements.txt READ MORE

Using Docker as an Ansible and Python platform for Network Engineers

A quick start guide for using the purpose built Docker images for Ansible and Python Built for Network Engineers by a Network Engineer Over the last few years I’ve built up a repository of Docker images to help me learn Ansible. If you are new to Ansible you may not know that while Ansible can READ MORE

A quick example of using TextFSM to parse data from Cisco show commands – Python3 Version

As part of my ongoing effort to migrate everything over to Python 3, it’s time to show this “quick example” in Python 3. TextFSM is a powerful parsing tool (python module) developed by Google.    There are some great examples out there to get you started. Here are two I urge you to read if this READ MORE