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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