Golden Config design
Golden Config’s design may not follow the mental model that you are expecting, so it is important to understand the philosophy before diving in head first. The workflow it uses is to generate your configuration, back it up, parse the configuration into user-definable features (or config stanzas), and then compare those features exactly, as shown:
Figure A3.1 – Golden Config design
The premise of comparing those configurations exactly can cause confusion to a network engineer because we intrinsically know that interface GigabitEthernet1 and int Gig1 represent the same thing. To Golden Config, they are not an exact match and will never be compliant. This is true for many other reasons that may not affect a network engineer’s pasting in config, such as whitespace, the usage of tabs, and literally anything that is not that exact match. For this reason, it is critical to be meticulous in matching your configurations...
