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Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets
From: Simon Knight <simon.knight () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:45:38 -0800
Definitely. Depends what form the database takes - I don't think SQL is the right answer here. Sticking with flat files and perl scripts as much as possible is good guidance. I'm biased, but I'd go with Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGK5jjyUBCQ --Simon On 27 February 2014 13:05, Erik Muller <erikm () buh org> wrote:
On 2/27/14, 15:52 , Joe Abley wrote:This is not any kind of sensible answer to the original question, but the general approach "give ops people a shell on a box with a rancid repository, encourage them to write scripts that do stuff" has the potential to cause all kinds of good things to happen faster than the time taken to organise a conference call to discuss requirements gathering for a "production" system.+1000. And that applies equally to the backend. I have yet to meet a fancy, integrated, database-driven configuration management system that can beat a bunch of flat files and a few perl scripts. Hackability of a system can be a definite virtue here. -e
Current thread:
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets, (continued)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Saku Ytti (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Ryan Shea (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Andrew Latham (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Ryan Shea (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Erik Muller (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Erik Muller (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Simon Knight (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Joe Abley (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Erik Muller (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Simon Knight (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Simon Knight (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Christopher Morrow (Feb 27)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Ryan Shea (Feb 28)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Keegan Holley (Feb 28)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Ryan Shea (Feb 28)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Ryan Shea (Feb 28)
- Re: Managing IOS Configuration Snippets Erik Muller (Feb 28)