October 25, 2021 John Lawitzke NYAT User Guide v4 Now Available We are excited to announce the release of version 4 of the NETCONF & YANG Automation Testing (NYAT) User Guide. The NYAT program enables the testing of NETCONF-enabled network elements … Read More
October 20, 2021 John Lawitzke Are You Making the Management of Your Device a Trick or Treat? Ghoulish Greetings to All! As we approach the October harvest festivals and the spooky mischief of Halloween, consider these questions as a network equipment provider. Are you creating devices that … Read More
September 30, 2021 John Lawitzke ConfD 7.6 Release Highlights We are happy to announce the release of ConfD 7.6 with several exciting new features. This blog post highlights the most important enhancements, changes, and deprecations. These, however, are just the highlights. … Read More
August 26, 2021 John Lawitzke EANTC 2021 Multi-Vendor NETCONF/YANG SDN Management Interoperability Test Results Are Now Available We are excited to tell you that the EANTC Multi-Vendor NETCONF and YANG SDN Management Interoperability Test results for 2021 have just been published in a new white paper. The … Read More
August 25, 2021 John Lawitzke YANG Patch and RESTCONF If you have worked with access permissions, you have encountered the concept of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) data access controls. One user may have permission to only read certain … Read More
July 21, 2021 John Lawitzke Network Programmability and Transactions: The Foundations of Automation Programmability enables the automated configuration and management of network devices via software. Large enterprise and service provider networks are comprised of devices from multiple vendors, with multiple operating systems and … Read More
June 02, 2021 Michal Novak How to Add gNMI to ConfD gNMI Support for ConfD A new example project called confdgnmi has been started at ConfD-Developer on GitHub. The project implements an example gNMI Adapter using existing ConfD APIs. ConfD is a data model driven … Read More
June 02, 2021 John Lawitzke The Role of Automation in DevOps We hear a lot about DevOps. It’s described in many ways—an approach, a philosophy, a culture, a set of practices. We all know that DevOps is meant to overcome the … Read More
June 01, 2021 Conny Ohult Andersen High Performance ConfD Data Providers The performance of the data provider application is often key in the many integrations done with the ConfD Data Provider (DP) API. When a data provider application is not performing … Read More
April 22, 2021 Nabil Michraf ConfD Upgrade Considerations To upgrade or not to upgrade, this is the constant question IT teams and network device makers consider regularly. Update cycles can sometimes feel like a reoccurring churn being driven … Read More
April 15, 2021 John Lawitzke Evolve and Change for the Future Recently, I was reading an article in the trade press that was discussing automation and network management and where things are going. The author said something that really caught my … Read More
March 24, 2021 John Lawitzke Continuous Integration: You have a Programmable Interface, Now Use It! In the world of network programmability, I talk a lot about NETCONF and YANG and what it means to be programmable. The one thing I don’t talk about often enough … Read More
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
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