Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals
by Khaled Abuelenain, Jeff Doyle, Anton Karneliuk, Vinit Jain
Chapter 15
gRPC, Protobuf, and gNMI
In the previous two chapters, you learned about two network management protocols, NETCONF and RESTCONF. These two protocols form the foundation of network programmability and are the two most ubiquitous protocols in today’s enterprise networks—for service providers and data centers alike. However, the development of network technologies, including network automation protocols, is never in a frozen state; as new challenges arise, new solutions need to be developed to meet those challenges. This chapter introduces a new protocol that has been to developed to solve some of these newly emerging challenges: gRPC. This protocol relies on an absolutely new data serialization format named Protocol buffers (shortly ...
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