Network Automation Engineering Fundamentals Specialization

Launch Your Career in Network Automation Engineering Fundamentals. This Specialization provides an overview and a primer for network engineers looking to start their journey in Network Automation.
The Network Automation Engineering Fundamentals Specialization takes mid- to expert-level network engineers through the primary topics of network automation and programmability and prepares them for the NetDevOps environment. This Specialization serves as a well-rounded survey of topics and core skills that a network automation engineer should know to effectively deploy and operate a NetDevOps environment.
Completing this Specialization will help you prepare to operate as a network automation engineer with the skills needed to advance your career.
What You will Learn:

The issues network automation can solve, building a foundation for further mastery
The basics of NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI, and YANG modeling
How to script security topics with Ansible and Python

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Introducing Model-Driven Programmability (Coursera)

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Jun 22nd 2026

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Python APIs REST APIs

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Ansible for Network Automation (Coursera)

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