Operator-Owned YAML for Configuration Backups
The Configuration Backup Problem Every network team has a story about a misconfiguration recovery that went sideways because the backup was stale, incomplete, or stored in some engineer’s home directory. Pulling configs from a multi-vendor environment shouldn’t require bespoke expect scripts for each platform — scripts where the TFTP timeout handling differs between your Cisco ASR edge routers and your Juniper QFX datacenter switches. When your backup logic lives inside imperative Python scripts or complex Ansible playbooks, every OS update becomes a risk. One changed CLI prompt can silently break your entire backup pipeline. ...