Architect & DE Discussions
FOSDEM 2020: trends and analysis
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As for the last 11 years Cisco sponsored the FOSDEM 2020 conference in Brussels. This is one of the largest, if not the largest, open source conference in the world with this year 872 events spread over 2 days. From a network point of view the important part is that the main SSID at the […]
Network Programmability with YANG: The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI
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Cisco has gone all-in on model-driven management across all major operating systems. Modern versions of IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS all support YANG-powered NETCONF with IOS-XE and NX-OS also supporting RESTCONF and IOS-XR supporting gNMI. Moreover, in addition to pushing configuration changes and pulling config and operational state via model-driven protocols, these same platforms support streaming […]
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