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

[Nick Hilliard via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Mark Prosser via NANOG wrote on 18/03/2025 19:05:
> 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?

regardless of the configuration mechanism (cli / socket interface / web):

- configuration atomic commit
- configuration rollback
- config stack which supports direct A->B config changes without going 
through intermediate configuration stages
- configuration idempotency (i.e. issuing the same command repeatedly 
does the same thing)

Without these, config management becomes non-deterministic and 
unscalable. There's only a tiny handful (3 maybe?) of NOS configuration 
mechanisms that I'm aware of that support all four.  Configuration is hard.

Nick
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