Chapter 8. Automation Is as Good as the Data Models, Their Related Metadata, and the Tools: For the Module Author

This chapter covers

  • How to learn from others when creating your own YANG modules

  • How to test your own YANG modules

  • How to test your module’s instance data

  • How to share your module’s metadata

Introduction

This chapter continues looking at YANG tools but from a module author angle. In addition to those tools that help with module writing, there are tricks and specific metadata that make this process easier. By the end of this chapter, you will have shortcuts to help you while writing a YANG module, as well as tools to help you test your module structure and validate instance data based on your module. You will understand how your ...

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