February 25, 2021 John Lawitzke Observability Enables Network Controllability In my last blog post, I talked about being able to see both sides of the equation and that knowledge of the device is equally important as knowledge of orchestration. … Read More
February 25, 2021 John Lawitzke YANG Push and ConfD Observability is a hot topic in network operations these days. Actually, it has always been a hot topic but under different names such as monitoring, data collection, telemetry, etc. No … Read More
January 28, 2021 John Lawitzke ConfD 7.5 Release Highlights We are happy to announce the release of ConfD 7.5 with several exciting new features. This blog post highlights the most important enhancements, changes, and deprecations. These, however, are just … Read More
January 28, 2021 John Lawitzke WebUI Development using ConfD’s JSON-RPC API A popular choice for implementing human-to-machine management interfaces is a WebUI. When migrating existing or writing new WebUI content for ConfD, the application developer has two choices for integrating: JSON-RPC … Read More
January 28, 2021 John Lawitzke EANTC NETCONF & YANG Interoperability Events In November 2020, the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) held the “Multi-Vendor NETCONF/YANG-Based SDN Management Interoperability Test 2020” event in Berlin via virtual participation. This interoperability test event focused … Read More
January 20, 2021 John Lawitzke You Need Both Sides of the Equation in Network Management When doing math, equations include variables on both sides and both sides of the equation have to be equal; i.e., balance out. In essence, you need to add to both … Read More
December 14, 2020 John Lawitzke Is Your Network Equipment Interoperable? Prove It with EANTC Interop Testing Interoperability is all about connectivity so your solution/product can work with other products or systems today and into the future. I’ve talked quite a bit about the importance of following … Read More
November 19, 2020 Jonas Johansson Securing and Sandboxing ConfD using Systemd Developing, deploying, and using software securely is something that is important and whose importance only continues to grow with time. The ConfD User Guide contains information about how to increase … Read More
November 18, 2020 John Lawitzke 2021 Predictions and Trends It almost seems unreal the year we have had and how 2020 has reshaped so many parts of our lives. As is common with me, I am doing a lot … Read More
November 16, 2020 Conny Ohult Andersen Extracting YANG Annotations from Your Data Models When working with ConfD, developers make quite a bit of use of Tail-f YANG extension statements in their YANG data models to provide information about things such as backend instrumentation, … Read More
October 22, 2020 Conny Ohult Andersen NETCONF and RESTCONF Authentication using X.509 Certificates Traditionally, and by far the most popular choice, NETCONF uses SSH as a transport protocol and public/private key pairs for authenticating a new connection. RESTCONF, being a web protocol, is … Read More
October 21, 2020 John Lawitzke Programmability: “The Proof is in the Pudding” I have been thinking lately about a common idiom: “The proof is in the pudding.” This is to say that the real worth or success of something is determined by … Read More
September 22, 2020 John Lawitzke ConfD 7.4 Release Highlights We are happy to announce the release of ConfD 7.4 with several exciting new features. This blog post highlights the most important enhancements, changes, and deprecations. These, however, are just … Read More
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