Flexible network management system for configuring network devices

A system comprising:

• a set of processing units;
• and
• a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by at least one processing unit in the set of processing units cause the at least one processing unit to:
• receiving, from a first client device, a first request to create a studio for configuring a single network feature from among a plurality of network features and a schema specifying characteristics of a set of input variables for configuring the single network feature;
• in response to the first request, generate a studio definition for the studio based on the schema, wherein the studio definition includes the schema specifying characteristics of the set of input variables for configuring the single network feature;
• receiving, from a second client device, a second request to create a workspace for making changes to the studio and specific values for the set of input variables included in the schema of the studio definition;
• in response to the second request, generate a first workspace definition, the first workspace definition specifying the received studio definition which configures the single network feature, the first workspace definition specifying specific values for the set of input variables specified in the schema of the received studio definition;
• perform a set of build operations using the studio definition and the first workspace definition to generate a set of configuration commands to configure the single network feature on a subset of a plurality of network devices;
• and
• configure the subset of the plurality of network devices using the set of configuration commands to configure the single network feature on each of the subset of the plurality of network devices.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a program executable by at least one processing unit of a device, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

• receiving, from a first client device, a first request to create a studio for configuring a single network feature from among a plurality of network features and a schema specifying characteristics of a set of input variables for configuring the single network feature;
• in response to the first request, generating a studio definition for the studio based on the schema, wherein the studio definition includes the schema specifying characteristics of the set of input variables for configuring the single network feature;
• receiving, from a second client device, a second request to create a workspace for making changes to the studio and specific values for the set of input variables included in the schema of the studio definition;
• in response to the second request, generating a first workspace definition, the first workspace definition specifying the received studio definition which configures the single network feature, the first workspace definition specifying the specific values for the set of input variables specified in the schema of the received studio definition;
• performing a set of build operations using the studio definition and the first workspace definition to generate a set of configuration commands to configure the single network feature on a subset of a plurality of network devices;
• and
• configuring the subset of the plurality of network devices using the set of configuration commands to configure the single network feature on each of the subset of the plurality of network devices,
• wherein the subset of the plurality of network devices does not include all of the network devices.