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Automate your
network with Nornir
Python automation framework

Dmitry Figol, SE EN Sales — Programmability


@dmfigol
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Agenda
• What is Nornir
• Nornir vs Ansible
• Demo
• Summary

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About me

@dmfigol
dmfigol
dmfigol.me
dmfigol
dmfigol

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”I am not sure why they are
reinventing Ansible”
Me in 2018

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”I would like to help you maintain
Nornir”
Also me 9 months later

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Flexible and
scalable network
automation
framework where
Nornir everything is done in
Python

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Why not Ansible
• Tasks written in domain-specific language (DSL)
• Programming in YAML?
• Troubleshooting and debugging playbooks is hard
• Poor architecture for local execution leading to scalability problems
• Poor developer experience
• CLI as the primary entry point

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Nornir advantages
• Provides an abstraction for inventory (hosts and groups) and
concurrent task execution
• Everything in Python (or Golang, check out Gornir)
• Just another Python library to import
• Great flexibility and extensibility
• Very fast due to use of threads

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Nornir advantages (cont.)
• Re-uses existing libraries for the connections: netmiko, napalm
• Caches, re-uses and automatically closes opened connections
• Use any troubleshooting, debugging or testing tool from Python
ecosystem
• Easy hosts filtering based on any attribute or combination of
attributes
• Easy integration with other Python frameworks (Flask, Django,
pytest)

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”The more I work with Nornir; the
more I like it.
The more I work with Ansible;
the more I like Nornir”
Kirk Byers
Twin Bridges Technology

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Development focus
• Small codebase (4k lines of code) which is easy to maintain
• Backwards compatibility
• Semantic versioning is strictly followed
• Modern tooling used with CI to improve code quality: linting, code
style, static type checking, unit testing
• Detailed documentation
• Even examples in tutorials are being automatically tested as part of
CI

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Use-cases
• Run as a standalone script (print results, save to a file, etc.)
• Integrate with a web framework
• Integrate with pytest for network testing

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Demo
https://github.com/dmfigol/nornir-workshop
Wrap-up
Summary
• Nornir is a flexible multi-threaded Python network automation
framework which abstracts inventory and task execution
• Everything is in Python so it’s very easy to integrate with any other
Python code

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Where to go next
• Nornir documentation: https://nornir.readthedocs.io
• Using Nornir for OS Upgrades by Kirk Byers
• Talk to the developer team on:
• Our forum: https://nornir.discourse.group/
• Network To Code Slack, #nornir channel

• Open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/nornir-


automation/nornir

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