Restconf

[khgrant]

Hi,

What is the current support in NSO for restconf SB?

If we have a “device” that supports restconf and a yang model – how would we talk to that device?  Would we import it as a regular netconf device or?

I did not find anything in the docs. A search of the docs yields the NB restconf API  interface of NSO.

Thanks, JA

[khgrant]

Hi,

At this stage, we would need to create a generic NED for it. I hope that one day we would be able to import it as we do with NETCONF.

Roque

[khgrant · Accepted solution]

JA,

What is the current support in NSO for restconf SB?

If we have a “device” that supports restconf and a yang model – how would we talk to that device?  Would we import it as a regular netconf device or?

I did not find anything in the docs. A search of the docs yields the NB restconf API  interface of NSO.

RESTCONF may be ok when an application only needs to communicate with one agent (device/server/orchestrator/...), e.g. NSO. It's less suitable when an application needs to talk to multiple agents since RESTCONF lacks the concept of network-wide transactions. NETCONF is a much better choice in that situation. So architecturally RESTCONF SB from NSO isn't ideal, given that we invariably have an array of things to orchestrate.

Best Regards,

/jan