Summary
In this chapter, we explored different ways to use APIs and RPCs to interact with network devices. One common theme we saw throughout this chapter was having a model for any data we exchange. Although the network community has embraced YANG as the standard language to model network configuration and operational state data, the implementation differences across networking vendors still impede its wide adoption.
In the next chapter, we’ll look at how OpenConfig tries to increase the adoption of declarative configuration and model-driven management and operations by defining a set of vendor-neutral models and protocols.
