Python for System Administrators

Goal

Use python to replace sysadmin tools like awk, perl and gnuplot and:

• gather system data on different platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac);
• parse them efficiently (µ-benchmarks, defaultdict, re.compile, dstat plugins);
• basic statistics and data visualization (distributions, correlation, scatter);
• showcase of useful libraries (smtplib, ansible, mysql-utilities);
• plan test driven deployments with Ansible

Timings are in the draft slides

Methodology

The training is interactive, jupyter notebooks stubs here with sources and a Docker image. Students will be driven performing the exercises and sharing their results. A couple of volunteers will be prepared to support the students.

Prerequisites

The training is multi-platform, though focused on Linux + Python2.7:

• Linux, Windows, Mac

Feel free to contact me for any issue or question!