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