[NANOG] Re: The Network CLI -- Love it ? Hate it? Needed?

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

I grew up on the CLI, as many did, so I am most comfortable there. There
have always been downsides when it comes to automation, as screen scraping
sucks. Newer things are mitigating that.

That being said, at least 20-25% of the CVEs that all the big vendors
publish continue to be GUI related, so I will continue to not be using GUIs
anytime soon.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM Mark Prosser via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> Hi NANOG community,
>
> I posed this question in several chat groups, but I'd like to get your
> opinions.
>
> Do you love the CLI? Do you hate the CLI? Would you -- or do you already
> -- enjoy a world where you never need to touch the CLI, to manage your
> network?
>
> This applies to both provisioning and troubleshooting; to which, you may
> have different answers.
>
> So far, I've seen a variety of replies around the usual
> "should/must/must not/should not".
>
> Warm regards,
>
> --
> Mark Prosser
> // E: mark () zealnetworks ca
> // W: https://zealnetworks.ca
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