Network resource API

Often, your network consists of network devices that do not change a lot once put into production. For example, you would have core devices, distribution devices, spine, leaf, top-of-rack switches, and so on. Each of the devices would have certain characteristics and features that you would like to keep in a persistent location so that you can easily retrieve them later on. This is often done in terms of storing data in a database. However, you would not normally want to give other users, who might want this information, direct access to the database; nor do they want to learn all the complex SQL query language. For this case, we can leverage Flask and the Flask-SQLAlchemy extension of Flask.

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You can learn more about Flask-SQLAlchemy at http://flask-sqlalchemy.pocoo.org/2.1/.

Flask-SQLAlchemy

Of course, SQLAlchemy and the Flask extension are a database abstraction layer and object relational mapper, respectively. It's a fancy way of saying to use the Python object for...