December 19, 2019 Greg Olin NMDA and ConfD – Getting Datastores Right One of the core principles of IETF standards is that they should continue to evolve and be revised based on real-world experience. RFC 8342, Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA), is … Read More
December 17, 2019 John Lawitzke End of Year Trends and Predictions – Part 2 My last blog post dipped into a couple of trends highlighting what I expect to see in 2020. I addressed the trends that NFV and SDN are dead and how … Read More
November 21, 2019 Wai Tai Update to NSO Driven NETCONF and YANG Interoperability Testing User Guide I’m glad to report that improvements have been made to NSO 5.2 in which the ability to build a NETCONF NED has now been fully integrated. This new feature is … Read More
November 21, 2019 John Lawitzke Announcing ConfD Developer on GitHub We are excited to announce the launch of ConfD Developer on Github, providing a public place to share and collaborate around application code and tools related to ConfD. This new … Read More
November 20, 2019 John Lawitzke End of Year Trends and Predictions – Part 1 2019 is coming to a close and 2020 is right around the corner! Now is a time to reflect on what has happened in the past year and what will … Read More
October 17, 2019 Wai Tai Update to “ConfD for High Security Applications” Prior to the release of ConfD 7.2, if ConfD users were developing FIPS 140-2 compliant ConfD applications, they had to come up with their own solution or by following the … Read More
October 16, 2019 John Lawitzke EANTC Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test 2020: What It Is For the past several years, we have been promoting participation in EANTC’s Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test showcase event. In particular, we do a lot of promoting of the NETCONF and YANG … Read More
October 14, 2019 Jan Lindblad Need Agility? Buy Programmability! Which of these situations do you recognize? All the dials are in the red. You realize you are under DDOS attack. Wonderful that your friends over at the firewall company … Read More
October 09, 2019 John Lawitzke Why Should You Attend ConfD Developer Days 2019? We are a couple of weeks away from ConfD Developer Days 2019. As such, we wanted to give a totally biased view of why you should join us this year … Read More
September 19, 2019 Nabil Michraf ConfD Troubleshooting Guide When debugging issues in ConfD, one should have a good understanding of what is involved inside and outside of ConfD when the issue is reproduced. Relying on a single tool … Read More
September 17, 2019 John Lawitzke Importance of Transactions for Programmability We have seen a huge transition as more and more network engineering teams move towards a service-oriented approach to network management. With this transition, most have or are starting to … Read More
August 22, 2019 Greg Olin ConfD Legacy REST API to RESTCONF Migration We introduced an experimental REST API interface for ConfD in 2012, which eventually became a full production interface. The IETF then took that idea of having a REST interface alongside … Read More
August 21, 2019 John Lawitzke ConfD Basic 7.1.1 – Now with Python We are excited to announce the release of ConfD Basic 7.1.1. This release contains a major new addition to ConfD Basic as well as a few product announcements. What’s NEW: … Read More