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Git Tip: `git diff` lets you compare changes between commits, branches, or specific files. It also offers options for summaries and detailed file changes.

Here are a few examples:

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🚀 New Tech Session: Building a GraphQL API

You’ll learn:
✅ What is GraphQL
✅ GraphQL use cases in network automation
✅ Graphene vs Strawberry
✅ Strawberry 101
✅ Queries, mutations, async & FastAPI integration

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🚀 New Course: Terraform Fundamentals for Network Engineers by Chase Woodard.
Learn Terraform step by step: IaC concepts, providers, variables, state mgmt, and more!
📚 40 Lessons
🕒 4h 58min
🎯 Beginner-Friendly

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🐍 Python Tip: Improve code readability by enforcing named arguments
To enforce all arguments to be named, start your parameter list with *.

Here’s an example:

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🅰️ Ansible Tip:
When troubleshooting #Ansible settings, use `ansible-config dump --only-changed` to show only configurations that differ from the default. It reveals the source of the change, whether it's from a config file or an environment variable.

Here's an example 👇

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pyATS Tip! By default, pyATS runs several exec/config commands and logs to stdout when connecting. You can disable these using the parameters in the example below:

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🅰️ Resource Ansible Modules offer various states to manage configuration sections effectively. Use parsed to convert configurations into structured data.

Here's an example 👇

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pyATS Tip: Use pyATS APIs like get_platform_memory_usage() to easily retrieve device performance metrics, such as memory usage, from network devices, which you can later use within your test cases.

Example below 👇

Thanks to Arsalan Yahyazadeh for sharing this tip!

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📊 Netpicker and NetBox Integration – With the latest release, you can now build simple Python jobs in Netpicker while using data from NetBox. netpicker.io

🚀 New Tech Session: Building a Chatbot with MCP, Claude, and Netmiko

You’ll learn:
✅ What MCP is
✅ MCP components
✅ The full host, client, and server MCP flow
✅ MCP validation with MCP Inspector
✅ Building an MCP server with FastMCP and Netmiko

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🚀 New Module Added: Prometheus-based TSDB Store in Modern Network Telemetry
Includes:
✅ Intro to Prometheus & data model
✅ Setup & ingestion
✅ Graphs & alerting
✅ Triggering Ansible EDA
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Jinja Tip: Validate and check your Jinja templates for syntax errors with j2lint. Ideal for integrating into a CI pipeline.

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Here is an example below 👇

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pyATS Tip: Customize SSH directly within the pyATS testbed using ssh_options. Ideal when needing to alter the algorithms used when connecting to older devices.

Here is an example 👇

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🚀 Master Python Network Automation in 5 days!
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📢 Landing tonight is our Tech Session: Building a ChatBot with MCP, Claude and Netmiko. This is a members-only session. Looking to join? Head over to www.packetcoders.io/membership. #networkautomation

Wingpy - a Python library for working with Cisco products and APIs, including APIC, Catalyst Center, FMC, Meraki, and more. wingpy.automation.wingmen.dk

📢 Landing on Wednesday this week our Tech Session: Building a ChatBot with MCP, Claude and Netmiko. This is a members-only session. Learn more about joining over at: www.packetcoders.io/membership #networkautomation

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Python Tip: Use product from itertools to flatten your nested for loops.

Here is an example 👇

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