Chapter 17
Programming Cisco Platforms
As you are well aware by now, above and beyond the familiar legacy interfaces that network engineers have been using for over two decades, Cisco devices now provide a set of interfaces that are described as programmable. Programmable interfaces are built on top of the different components of the network programmability stack that earlier chapters discuss in a lot of detail—namely SSH, HTTP and the REST framework, JSON, XML and YAML encoding, YANG models, and the NETCONF, RESTCONF, gRPC, and native REST APIs.
This chapter introduces the programmability features of a number of Cisco platforms. It would be impossible to cover all programmability features of all platforms in one chapter, and no engineer is ...
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