Boxing items without changing process

[Jason Russell]

Essentially we have 3 “environments”. We have development, Test, and Production. Test and production are as you would expect, where live interfaces send data via whichever method. Development though is a file-based system where we can run test data from files to ensure the data is coming out the way we expect. We then move items from dev to test, we tend to box. If there’s no netconfig changes, only script/xlate/table changes, we’ll copy those files no problem. But if there are route changes, changes in the netconfig, etc, we box. From test to prod is not a problem as we can just update ports/servers. However, from dev to test, we end up having to deploy, and then reconfigure the TCP/IP.

Is there a way to deploy without modifying the protocol, but everything else?

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