At the end of my previous blog post I mentioned about wanting to work on Textual, and I’m excited to share here my first project using Textual. I feel like for us network engineers, working on a CLI makes our work more enjoyable so naturally, building a TUI(Terminal User Interface) to do some of the automation tasks was a no-brainer to me. I have called it Net-TUI, a TUI application to do few network automation tasks.
In this blog post I will be going through how I went about building a Network Dashboard using couple of my favorite Python libraries, Nornir and Rich. I’m quite sure that if you have been exploring the network automation world, you would have come across Nornir already. And similarly there is a very good chance that you have also come across Rich, which is in my opinion one of the coolest libraries out there! If you are someone who loves working in CLI, like I do, you will absolutely love Rich!
