OpenConfig

OpenConfig is a group of network operators (see the Further reading section) with the common goal of streamlining the way we manage and operate networks. They welcome anyone operating a production network as a member and, more recently, have started to accept contributions from vendors when more than one of them implements the same feature (that they want to include in a YANG model).

Their initial focus was to create a set of vendor-neutral YANG data models based on common operational use cases and requirements from the field. This later expanded to include vendor-neutral Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) for configuring, streaming telemetry, performing operational commands, and manipulating forwarding entries (see Further reading) on network devices. In this chapter, we will focus primarily on the OpenConfig RPCs, as we already covered YANG data models in Chapter 8, Network APIs.

One thing that sets OpenConfig apart from other similar initiatives is that they not only...