[rsnog] Microsoft SONiC, open source NOS

[Marko Milivojevic]

Svakako zanimljiva vremena :-)

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/google-facebook-designing-open-source-data-center-gear-together/
On Mar 10, 2016 07:40, "Predrag Ivanovic" <predivan at mts.rs> wrote:

>
> Jedna od zanimljivijih vesti iz MS ove nedelje.
>
> "SONiC is a collection of networking software components required to have
> a fully
>  functional L3 device that can be agnostic of any particular Linux
> distribution. Today SONiC runs on Debian."
>
> https://azure.github.io/SONiC/
>
> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-showcases-%E2%80%9Csoftware-for-open-networking-in-the-cloud-sonic-%E2%80%9D/
>
> Koliko sam video, Debian je 'samo' platforma za pokretanje Docker
> kontejnera, tako da bi, teoretski, mogao
> i Alpine Linux (http://alpinelinux.org/) da se iskoristi.
> Prednost Alpine-a je  manji footprint, efikasnije korišćenje resursa i
> manji attack surface, tako da je mnogo pogodniji za network appliance
> (dodatni bonus je musl libc, a ne glibc :) )
>
> Takodje mi je zanimljiva izjava MS da oni već koriste (zasada u manjoj
> meri) SONiC u produkciji (Azure), tako da ovo nije code dump
> samo da bi ispoštovali GPL.
>
> Sve u svemu, zanimljiva vremena :)
>
> Pedja
>
>
>
>
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