Lightning Talk: Managing network devices like servers
Beginning with the release Nitrogen (2017.7), Salt provides support to manage network gear that allows execution of custom software. Examples of such platforms inc …
| Talk Title | Lightning Talk: Managing network devices like servers |
| Speakers | Mircea Ulinic, CloudFlare, Inc. |
| Conference | NANOG71 |
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| Location | San Jose, CA |
| Date | Oct 2 2017 - Oct 4 2017 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
| Video | Talk Video |
Beginning with the release Nitrogen (2017.7), Salt provides support to manage network gear that allows execution of custom software. Examples of such platforms include white box devices, e.g., Arista, Cumulus, etc., or others that moved the operating system in the container, e.g., Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco NX-OS, etc. Installing the Salt Minion directly on the device comes with a series of advantages, inherited directly from the server automation - one of the most important being scalability: there are well known deployments of tens of thousands of devices managed like that. For Arista EOS, there’s even a dedicated SWIX extension that provides all the necessary packages in order to install the Salt Minion on the switch: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/eos.html
