The Python client Pyeapi (http://pyeapi.readthedocs.io/en/master/index.html) library is a native Python library wrapper around eAPI. It provides a set of bindings to configure Arista EOS nodes. Why do we need Pyeapi when we already have eAPI? Picking between Pyeapi versus eAPI is mostly a judgment call if you are in a Python environment.
However, if you are in a non-Python environment, eAPI is probably the way to go. From our examples, you can see that the only requirement of eAPI is a JSON-RPC capable client. Thus, it is compatible with most programming languages. When I first started out in the field, Perl was the dominant language for scripting and network automation. There are still many enterprises that rely ...
