A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so, we ...

Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do—imperative programming—to describing what they should be—declarative programming.

The declarative pipeline simply enforces this. The same, but different Scripted vs. declarative pipelines are different only in their programmatic approach. One uses a declarative programming model, ...