For a college campus?
This has serious hacker potential, like the early days of BSD!
First they came for the DBAs. Then they came for the storage admins. Now the software-defined networking (SDN) shock troops are coming for network administrators. Aruba's leading this charge with its new OS8, which is being billed as a “Mobile First Platform” that lets anyone capable of writing to an API wrestle a campus WLAN …
"The HP unit's idea is that network admins shouldn't be called upon to do this sort of thing if it can be avoided, but should be happy to oversee a library of API-addressing recipes cooked up by developers."
Soooo...in HP land, the network admins don't admin networks, they, eh, errr, ummm, play Solitaire? Write software? Watch TV?
And sorry, but the fucking developers should NOT be allowed to mess with switches, VLANs, or routers. Nothing fucks up a good network architecture like someone saying "hey, let's try this and see if it works. Oi, where'd the Internet go??? OMG!!! now I can't get to StackExchange to figure out how to unfuck this mess I've made." There really are lots of OTHER PEOPLE in the company who rely on the network to function properly so they can do their jobs.
Downvote away, dev-op fanbois. I know you want to.
First, it's HPE, not HP...two different, independent companies in case you hadn't heard the news from last November.
Yes, AOS 8 has a new, powerful API, but you don't have you use it for anything if you don't want to. I guess if you give options, people complain, if you don't, they'll still complain. The title of the article is completely misleading. That's not the goal of the API.