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[This post was reviewed and edited by many of the people who have contributed to the Nautobot project at Network to Code.]

These days, most organizations heavily leverage YAML and JSON to store and organize all sorts of data. This is done in order to define variables, be provided as

Time series databases and their query languages are tools with increasing popularity for a Network Automation Engineer. However, sometimes these tools may be overlooked by network operators for

Every IT professional will encounter Regex at some point in their career. Contrary to how it looks, Regex is not just some funny strings of random characters. You

Because you are reading this post, you’re likely aware of the great power of the Jinja2 templating language. You might have turned an entire data center configuration in

This content was originally posted on the Ansible Blog on 2020-12-08. Here you will learn about NetBox at a high level, how it works to become a Source

Which data type is more popular, JSON or XML? I believe the overwhelming majority will say “JSON”, which is understandable, because JSON is easier to read, easier to

Ansible’s inventory management system is one of the strongest features of the platform. The options for using different inventory sources make it quite extensible. Starting with a static

Thank you for joining me for Part 3 of the parsing strategies blog series. This post will dive deeper into using Cisco’s PyATS Genie library for parsing. For

In this post I’ll cover setting up and working with the community.kubernetes collection in Ansible Tower. I’ll describe my experience with the initial installation of the collection on

At NTC, we are incredibly proud to have been named one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces for the second year in a row. This recognition is a testament to

Beginning your automation journey can seem like an overwhelming task. We often hear questions from our clients, such as, “Where do I even begin?” or “How can I