Today I like to describe the target Use Case, functionality and structure of the Network Configuration Generator. Furthermore, I like to describe the Integration and API capabilities that should be implemented. At the end of this post, I discuss some limitations and functionalities that are considered out-of-scope for the first version.

I decide to create my first blog post series, which should provide a practical guideline to create your own web based Network Configuration Generator. I’ll like to focus on the overall approach and the tools/frameworks that I used during the creation of this tool. At the end of the series, you'll get a full configuration generator running as a Web service.

Today I'll like to give you a brief introduction to a small Web service that I've created earlier this year: the Product Database. The primary functional goal of this Web service was to automate Cisco EoL checks using a central database.

Today I’d like to show you a quick introduction to the ipaddress module that is part of the python 3. The code examples are part of a Jupyter notebook, as already announced in my last post.

I like to write about a tool today, that I used since several months to write python code for some smaller tasks: Jupyter. It provides a web-based python environment running on your local machine or on a server. This is very useful from my perspective to get started with python programming, play with new libraries and share scripts.