NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support) is a Python library that implements a set of functions to interact with different router vendor devices using a unified API.

NAPALM supports several methods to connect to the devices, to manipulate configurations or to retrieve data.

Please check the following link to see which devices are supported. Make sure you understand the caveats.

Before using the library, please read the documentation at: Read the Docs

You can also watch a live demo of NAPALM to see what it is and what it can do for you.

• NAPALM, Ansible, and Cisco IOS by Kirk Byers
• Adding Cisco IOS support to NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support) by Gabriele Gerbino

• NANOG 64 Presentation & Demo by David Barroso and Elisa Jasinska
• Netnod Autumn Meeting 2015 Presentation by David Barroso
• Automating IXP Device Configurations with Ansible at the Euro-IX Forum by Elisa Jasinska

• NAPALM: Integrating Ansible with Network Devices on Software Gone Wild with David Barroso and Elisa Jasinska

To install, execute:

pip install napalm

Please ckeck napalm-ansible for existing Ansible modules leveraging the NAPALM API. Make sure you read the documentation and you understand how it works before trying to use it.

If you have any questions, join the users' mailing list at napalm-automation@googlegroups.com and if you are developer and want to contribute to NAPALM feel free to join to the developers' mailing list at napalm-dev@googlegroups.com

You can find the homologous IRC channels on freenode #napalm-automation and #napalm-dev. Feel free to join if you prefer a more direct approach.

If you prefer SLACK feel free to join the NAPALM channel on slack at network.toCode().

• David Barroso (dbarrosop@dravetech.com)
• Elisa Jasinska (elisa@bigwaveit.org)
• Many others, check the contributors page for details.

This project was founded by David Barroso as part of Spotify and Elisa Jasinska as part of BigWave IT. Originally it was hosted by the Spotify organization but due to the many contributions received by third parties we agreed creating a dedicated organization for NAPALM and give a big thanks to Spotify for the support.