February 21, 2019 John Lawitzke NETCONF Call Home and ConfD There has been quite a bit of interest from customers in the NETCONF Call Home feature which is described in RFC 8071, “NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home”. Normally, … Read More
February 12, 2019 John Lawitzke Get to know ConfD and YANG through the ConfD User Community Forum It has been four years since we launched the ConfD User Community Forum, the best place for ConfD users to interact with one another and share knowledge about ConfD as … Read More
January 24, 2019 Conny Ohult Andersen Shame on You if you haven’t Tested Your ConfD Device with NSO As the Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) has become a popular industry-leading software for automating services across traditional and virtualized networks, I have observed that the orchestrated traditional (physical) or … Read More
December 27, 2018 Sal Lirosi Looking Back on 2018 It is hard to believe that 2018 is coming to an end. What a fantastic year to be in the field of network programmability. We want to express our thanks … Read More
December 20, 2018 John Lawitzke ConfD RESTCONF Token Authentication This year has been a great opportunity to educate and help you build your knowledge about ConfD and its features; especially new features. One example of this is our recent … Read More
November 15, 2018 Wai Tai ConfD and High Security Applications In the United States, FIPS (which stands for Federal Information Processing Standard) is a set of rules which outline the basic security needs of cryptographic modules used in computer and … Read More
November 07, 2018 John Lawitzke ConfD Developer Days 2018 – What I Experienced! I just spent the past week in San Jose with some of the best customers that I could ever ask for. As many of you know, last week was ConfD … Read More
October 18, 2018 John Lawitzke The Evolution of Programmability When I think back to how we used to manage our devices, I am struck by how primitive and limiting the old methods were. I used to be involved in … Read More
September 20, 2018 John Lawitzke Time to get your Swagger on with RESTCONF Over the years, ConfD has demonstrated the power of the data model-driven paradigm. Having a formal description of the data provides a rock-solid foundation for automation. The most visible form … Read More
August 16, 2018 Greg Olin ConfD and Kubernetes As we discussed in our previous white paper “Network Programmability in Cloud-Native NFV”, there is a movement towards exploring cloud-native technologies in building virtual network functions (VNFs). We continue to … Read More
July 26, 2018 Jonas Johansson ConfD 6.7 and its New Examples Announced! We are pleased to announce the release of ConfD 6.7 with new examples that expand to all languages (C, Java and Python), add two RESTCONF examples and a way to … Read More
July 19, 2018 John Lawitzke NETCONF Integration of Legacy SNMP Operational Data It is a common occurrence for us to work with a customer who has a need to add programmability via NETCONF and YANG to a legacy system which is currently … Read More
July 03, 2018 Wai Tai What an experience at NSO Developer Days 2018 in Stockholm I recently attended the NSO Developer Days at the historic Vasa Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. The Vasa Theatre was built in 1886 and has for many years been Stockholm’s main … Read More