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Rick Donato

Rick Donato is the creator and founder of Packet Coders. He has a passion for networking and automation, along with a strong love of coffee!

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Scrapli and Legacy Devices - no matching key exchange method found

A question that I find is asked a lot in the community is: How do I use Scrapli with legacy devices? For example, devices (such as IOS-XE) that use the

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Simplify JSON Parsing with JSONata

What is JSONata? JSONata is a lightweight query and transformation language for JSON; it provides: Parsing: Easily pull the data from your payloads with minimal syntax. Built-in functions: Manipulate your

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FastAPI for Network Automation

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: Introduction to APIs (Front End versus Back End) Introduction to FastAPI Demo You can find the scripts and code for this tech session within the Packet Coders

Introducing Nebula: Packet Coders' New Platform Launching August 1st

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Ansible Lightspeed

One of the big announcements from Redhat recently is the tech preview of Ansible Lightspeed, a new AI service around easing the process of creating your Ansible code. What is

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Secrets Management and HashiCorp Vault 101

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: Secrets Management - The secrets sprawl problem Secrets Management - Requirements Introduction to HashiCorp Vault Demo You can find the scripts and code for this tech session