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The modern cloud networking world is vastly different from traditional enterprise IT, and the gap is getting wider everyday. How does one truly scale across millions of machines and workloads globally? A decade ago, Arista pioneered the new software driven networking era and the same challenges now exist not only across the LAN intra-datacenters but also inter-datacenters via wide area networks (WANS). Although we have never promoted “SD-LAN” nor understood the “SD-WAN” hype, Arista has redefined software driven networking and pioneered the convergence between LANs and WANS.
The modern cloud networking world is vastly different from traditional enterprise IT, and the gap is getting wider everyday. How does one truly scale across millions of machines and workloads globally? A decade ago, Arista pioneered the new software driven networking era and the same challenges now exist not only across the LAN intra-datacenters but also inter-datacenters via wide area networks (WANS). Although we have never promoted “SD-LAN” nor understood the “SD-WAN” hype, Arista has redefined software driven networking and pioneered the convergence between LANs and WANS.
If you’re a long-time reader of my blog you probably know that I believe in learning the fundamentals before trying to do anything else (like Google-and-Paste spaghetti wall approach), so you could imagine my delight when I got this feedback from an engineer watching (free) Network Programmability 101 webinar:
I was expecting a technical webinar, so I was a little bit disappointed at first with a “meta” webinar, but as I got through I was more than happy; learning such a meta sphere or getting to know other mindsets is very useful for me. The webinar pushed me to think outside of my little world and to open my mind.
That's exactly what I'm trying to achieve with the high-level webinars. So glad to hear it worked ;))
Read more ...Say you are a network engineer, and you recently were told your company will be building applications using a distributed/microservices architecture with containers moving forward. You know how important this is for the developers — it gives them tremendous flexibility to develop and deploy money making applications. However, what does this mean for the network? It can be much more technically challenging to plan, operate, and manage a network with containers than a traditional network. The containers may need to talk with each other and to the outside world, and you won’t even know IF they exist, let alone WHERE they exist! Yet, the network engineer is responsible for the containers connectivity and high availability.
Since the containers are deployed inside a host — on a virtual ethernet network — they can be invisible to network engineers. Orchestration tools such as Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos or Kubernetes make it very easy to spin up and take down containers from various hosts on a network – and may even do this without human intervention. Many containers are also ephemeral and the traffic patterns between the servers hosting containers can be very dynamic and constantly shifting throughout the network.
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It isolates communications between cloud apps and devices.
The platform supports Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, CoreOS, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware.
Late entry into the storage space allowed for a platform designed for the cloud-native environment.
On this edition of the History of Networking at the Network Collective, we discuss the history of BGP churn and Add Paths with Daniel Walton of Cumulus Networks. The original post on the Network Collective can be seen here.
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This is the company's first cloud-based platform.
Uncle John Stands Back, At Last.
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