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’ve ...

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

As IT moves towards greater automation in operations and developers build systems on Kubernetes-based platforms, declarative systems are getting more attention. Over the past several years, a lot of ...