netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next v4 0/5] bridge: json support for fdb and vlan show

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Date:	Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:20:11 +0300
From:	Rami Rosen <roszenrami@...il.com>
To:	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Anuradha Karuppiah <anuradhak@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Julien Fortin <julien@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next v4 0/5] bridge: json support for fdb and
 vlan show

Hi all,

>Also, for external automation and orchestration tools (to whom this
>patch-set is addressed),
>there is no reason for them to write and maintain their own tools
>using netlink when they
>can use iproute2 directly to create a link or query its properties.

+1 for this, seems very reasonable,

Just want to remind us all, in recent netdev 1.1 conference in Seville
(Feb 2016), Damascene Joachimpillai (DJ) from Verizon gave a talk
("Linux Networking and Data Center Operations Challenges"); IIRC, he
mentioned that he misses a REST API to the Linux Kernel networking
stack control plane. And it seems that Rest API and JSON (and maybe
other APIs, like python based APIs) are natural candidates for such an
interface nowadays.

Regards,
Rami Rosen
http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen