Arista Networks have always been focused on large-scale datacenter networks. In its corporate profile page (https://www.arista.com/en/company/company-overview), it is stated as follows:
"Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments."
Notice that the statement specifically called our large datacenter, which we already know is exploded with servers, databases, and yes, network equipment too. Therefore, automation has always been on their mind. In fact, they have a Linux underpin behind their operating system, then EOS has many added benefits such as having Python already built-in along with Linux APIs.
Arista's automation story consist of three approaches:
EOS Automation (source: https://www.arista.com/en/products/eos/automation)
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