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Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals
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Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals

by Khaled Abuelenain, Jeff Doyle, Anton Karneliuk, Vinit Jain
May 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1232 pages
41h 29m
English
Cisco Press
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Chapter 1

The Network Programmability and Automation Ecosystem

We all have that one story we tell on ourselves about some stupid mistake that brought down a network segment or even an entire network. Here’s mine.

Thirty years ago, I was sitting in an office in Albuquerque, logged in to a router in Santa Fe, making some minor, supposedly nondisruptive modifications to the WAN interface. I wanted to see the changes I had made to the config, and I got as far as typing sh of the IOS show command before realizing I was still in interface config mode and needed to back out of it before entering the show command. But instead of backspacing or taking some other moderately intelligent action, I reflexively hit Enter.

The router, of course, interpreted ...

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ISBN: 9780135183762