In this course, you'll learn the basics of device configuration. First, you'll examine how to complete a basic device configuration using Bash shell. You'll then move on to configure a device using Python. Finally, you'll learn how to use Ansible to configure networking devices. This course can be used in preparation for the 200-901: DevNet Associate certification exam.

In this course, you'll learn about Python scripting and managing WebEx resources. First, you'll examine how to use Meraki SDK to query and manipulate resources. Then, you'll move on to learn how to use RESTful services and Python to manage WebEx resources. This course can be used in preparation for the 200-901: DevNet Associate certification exam.

Explore Python and how Python can be used to create and manage automation in an IT environment.

Producers and consumers are applications that write events to and read events from Kafka. In this course, you will focus on integrating Python applications with a Kafka environment, implementing consumer groups, and tweaking Kafka configurations. Begin by connecting to Kafka from Python. You will produce to and consume messages from a Kafka topic using Python. Next, discover how to tweak Kafka broker configurations. You will place limits on the size of messages and disable deletion of topics. Then, publish messages to partitioned topics and explore the use of partitioning algorithms to determine the placement of messages on partitions. Explore consumer groups, which allow a set of consumers to process messages published to partitioned Kafka topics in parallel - without any duplication of effort. Finally, learn different ways to optimize Kafka's performance, using configurations for brokers and topics, as well as producer and consumer apps.

Python is a very popular choice among professional developers for writing computer applications. In this course, you'll discover the basic features of Python, beginning with an overview of the Python language. Then you'll explore how to install Python and learn its basic syntax. You'll learn how to use variables with strings and how to save Python files, flow control, conditionals, comparisons, loops, and lists. You'll go on to how to use loops and lists, implement flow control in an application, and obtain user input. You'll discover functions in Python, Boolean and None data types, and custom functions. You'll learn about Python and JSON modules, file handlers, and how to use exception handling to solve problems. You'll discover the Python package manager (pip), Python Package Index, and the benefits of reusing libraries in Python programming. Finally, you'll discover HTTP requests, APIs, and dictionary data types in Python programming. This course was originally created by Global Knowledge (GK).

Python is ubiquitous in modern desktop, server, and cloud computing environments. The ability to identify when to use Python, along with a working knowledge of how to write and run a Python script, are beneficial skills in secure coding. In this course, you'll explore the essential elements of Python scripting and the standard scenarios in which this language is preferable. First, you'll identify different Python scripts based on their features. Next, you'll learn how to work with variables, containers including lists, dictionaries, and tuples, conditionals, loops, and functions in a Python script. You'll learn how to carry out module imports and file reading and writing using a PowerShell script. Finally, you'll learn how to use a Python script to make a web request.