NetTowel

Collection of useful network automation functions

⚠️ nettowel is under heavy construction and not production ready. Feedback is highly appreciated.

Install

It is recommended to install nettowel with pipx. Therefore you have the dependencies isolated and you can use the nettowel or nt command.

pipx install nettowel[full]

You can also install it directly from pypi

pip install nettowel

To reduce the dependencies the extra dependencies are grouped

The following groups are available (more details in the pyproject.toml):

• full
• jinja
• ttp
• textfsm
• napalm
• netmiko
• scrapli
• nornir
• pandas
• jsonpatch
• tui

pip install nettowel[jinja]
pip install nettowel[full]

Install from source

git clone ....
cd nettowel
uv sync --extra full
uv run nettowel --help

Help and shell auto-completion

Thanks to the library typer, nettowel comes with a nice help and autocompletion install

Features

Many features are not implemented yet and many features will come.

Jinja2

render

validate

variables

TTP

render

Netmiko

cli

autodetect

device-types

RESTCONF

get

patch, delete

post, put

ipaddress

ip-info

network-info

YAML

load

dump

JSON Patch (RFC 6902)

create

apply

Help

Settings

A dotenv file can be used as a settings file. The file can also be provided with the option --dotenv.

Piping

TUI

Using Trogon a TUI (Terminal User Interface) can be generated to edit and run the NetTowel command.