RESTCONF – Network programmability stream 26

The recording of the network programmability stream which occurred on 2018/09/16

During this stream I was exploring RESTCONF – protocol to interact with YANG models on network devices using HTTPS. My tests were done on CSR1000v running 16.8.1a

Timecode:
0:00 – Introduction
1:22 – Announcements/News
28:50 – First steps with RESTCONF and Postman
32:30 – What is YANG?
39:45 – NETCONF vs RESTCONF comparative analysis
55:48 – RESTCONF operations
1:18:02 – IETF interfaces: interface statistics
1:23:15 – RESTCONF key selector in URI and query params
1:30:45 – IETF interfaces: interface config
1:40:00 – Openconfig interfaces: interfaces config and statistics
1:53:55 – Native model Cisco-IOS-XE-interfaces: interfaces configuration
2:27:00 – Openconfig ACL: ACL config and statistics
2:27:45 – Native model Cisco-IOS-XE-device-hardware-oper: inventory of modules with serial numbers
2:34:10 – Native model Cisco-IOS-XE-BGP: BGP config
2:55:40 – Stream summary and wrap-up

Resources:
RESTCONF RFC 8040 – https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8040
Cisco IOS XE library idea – https://github.com/dmfigol/cisco-iosxe


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