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
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
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