turbocharge_infoblox_api

This repository contains the scripts used in the multi-part series of articles entitled Turbocharge your Infoblox RESTful calls.

Installation

To run the scripts in this repo, I strongly recommend you create a Python virtual environment or venv. This can be done as follows:

1. Download the content of the repo to a workspace

2. unzip the file from your workspace directory

   unzip turbocharge_infoblox_api.zip
   

3. create a Python venv

   python3 -m venv turbocharge_infoblox_api
   

4. launch the virtual environment

   cd turbocharge_infoblox_api
   source bin/activate
   

5. use pip or poetry to install required modules

   Example using pip:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

   Example using poetry:

   poetry install
   

NOTE: you should update the following variables in the scripts:

• ibx_grid_master - the IP or hostname of the Grid Master
• ibx_username - the Infoblox admin user to authenticate
• ibx_password - the Infoblox user's password
• ibx_wapi_version - the WAPI version string should be of the form 'v2.11'

The scripts

• wapi-grid.py - A simple script which creates an infinite loop to fetch the WAPI grid object.
• wapi-network.py - A simple synchronous WAPI script which inserts 1024 24-bit
  network objects into the grid
• wapi-request.py - A WAPI script which inserts 1024 24-bit networks in a single WAPI call using the request object
• wapi-threaded.py - A WAPI script which leverages concurrency to insert 1024 24-bit networks using threads
• wapi-async.py - An async WAPI script which uses the aiohttp library to address concurrency