July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
19h 56m
English
Setting Up a Development Environment
Although there are multiple version control systems (Git, Mercurial, Subversion, ClearCase), the most used for network programmability and Infrastructure as Code is Git. Infrastructure as Code, which was discussed in Chapter 12, “Network Programmability,” consists of managing network infrastructure using a descriptive model, storing the same versioning systems that development teams use for source code. Git is so common that a new term has been coined. On top of DevOps and NetDevOps, there is also GitOps!
The purpose of Git is to keep track of the changes in a set of files over time, so you can recall any specific version at any point in time.
If the files are text based (such as the source code ...