Python - The Null Route

OpenPYXL Poor Performance Optimisation

Problem:OpenPYXL is a python library for parsing excel files. It's fantastic and works really well. Plenty of features are supported but my primary use-case is to simply read data from various sheets and convert the contents into a dictionary / list of dictionaries. The problem is, if you have a

Cisco

Import Certificates into Cisco IOS Router (SSL VPN)

Problem: So I've made a few posts on automating SSL VPN with LetsEncrypt etc etc, however what if you're already using some way of generating certificates? Be it LetsEncrypt or otherwise. Essentially these days I rely on another container to generate certificates as they're used by my loadbalancer to serve

Python

Netmiko Python package on Alpine

Problem: For a current project I was looking to use netmiko to administrate a Cisco router - and given my natural affinity for Docker I'm planning to use a container to run the script, so I do not have to depend on an external server being set up with the

Linux

Automating IOS WEBVPN LetsEncrypt SSL Certificates

Problem: In a previous post I addressed the problem of getting an SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt onto a Cisco IOS router. The problem we face now is that these certificates expire frequently, and it is therefore desirable to have a level of automation associated with this configuration so that expiring

Docker

Automating Docker with Python

Introduction: Ok I've gone docker mad, I love it! Everything of mine is now running on docker (at least everything I can). Naturally the next step is to bring some level of automation to the show, who doesn't love automation! Getting Started with the API The raw docker API is

VMware

vCenter 6.5 REST API w/ Python

Introduction: So one of the new features in vSphere 6.5 is the REST API introduced into vCenter. This is particularly interesting to me as I've always liked automating things but have been pained by the windows requirement for PowerCLI (I'm also not a huge fan of powershell, despite it's