{"id":888,"date":"2017-10-16T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/?p=888"},"modified":"2017-11-25T13:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T19:55:03","slug":"netdevops-what-does-it-even-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/netdevops-what-does-it-even-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"NetDevOps: What does it even mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As more and more network engineers dive into network automation, the word&nbsp;<strong>idempotence&nbsp;<\/strong>keeps coming up. What is it? Why is it important? Why should we care?&nbsp;<strong>Idempotence<\/strong>&nbsp;is often described as the ability to perform the same task repeatedly and produce the same result. I want to demonstrate a super simple example of what this means.<\/p>\n<p>See the rest of the blog post over on CumulusNetworks.com<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cumulusnetworks.com\/blog\/netdevops-important-idempotence\/\">https:\/\/cumulusnetworks.com\/blog\/netdevops-important-idempotence\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more and more network engineers dive into network automation, the word&nbsp;idempotence&nbsp;keeps coming up. What is it? Why is it important? Why should we care?&nbsp;Idempotence&nbsp;is often described as the ability to perform the same task repeatedly and produce the same result. I want to demonstrate a super simple example of what this means. See the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/netdevops-what-does-it-even-mean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NetDevOps: What does it even mean?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}