You will need to install a Python distribution on your local machine, which should have at least 4 GB of memory. For Chapter 9, Performing Network Automation with Python and Ansible, you will also need to install Ansible and have a local network configured or local virtual machines with Python installed for executing Ansible scripts. For Chapter 11, Designing Servers and Asynchronous Programming, examples involving Celery also need to be executed on a localhost Redis server.

In this book, all examples are available for execution in Python version 3.7 and are compatible with the Windows and Unix operating systems.