Python Network Programming

Intent-Driven Networking

Since the publication of the first edition of this book, the term Intent-Based Networking has seen an uptick in use after major network vendors chose to use it to describe their next-generation devices. In my opinion, Intent-Driven Networking is the idea of defining a state that the network should be in and having software code to enforce that state. As an example, if my goal is to block port 80 from being externally accessible, that is how I should declare it as the intention of the network. The underlying software will be responsible for knowing the syntax of configuring and applying the necessary access-list on the border router to achieve that goal. Of course, Intent-Driven Networking is an idea with no clear ...