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

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

Måns Nilsson via NANOG wrote on 19/03/2025 12:31:
> Subject: [NANOG] Re: The Network CLI -- Love it ? Hate it? Needed? Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:22:02PM +0200 Quoting 
> Saku Ytti via NANOG (nanog () lists nanog org):
>   
> > Yes this fits the brown field terribly. But it is actually easy to
> > move to this in a brownfield too.
> >
> > step1) dump native config to text-file in git
> > step2) this is now your central-state, you edit the text-files and
> > dump them to network upon changes
> > step3) you start to remove lines from text-file as you model them in RDBMS
> >
> > step3 continues forever, you're never done.
>
> I want your brownfield. You can have mine.

meh, no need to be so pessimistic - step3 can stop at the point that 
your data model fully understands all the nuances of your network.

No problem, right??

Nick
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