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

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 14:31, Måns Nilsson <mansaxel@besserwisser.org> wrote:

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):

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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.

I've outpriced myself out of the market :( -- ++ytti