Back in November, Cumulus Networks unveiled NCLU, an interactive command-line interface for configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. NCLU was made to help networking experts drive Linux without having to learn its intricacies and quirks, and so far, it has been very successful. Network engineers are comfortable configuring devices interactively, so NCLU helps abstract the file-based nature of Linux to smooth out the learning curve.
Since I started working at Cumulus Networks over two years ago, I’ve noticed that most of our customers who are working with us for the first time fall neatly into two categories. The majority of our users are experienced network engineers with very little Linux knowledge, whereas a minority are Linux server power-users who may only know the basics of networking. Most of my colleagues at Cumulus are networking industry veterans who started off in the first category, while I fell into the latter. I’ve always been an automation-first developer who applies web-scale principles to everything I do, meaning that from the first day I started configuring Cumulus Linux, I was doing so with tools like Ansible. With the release of Ansible 2.3, I’m happy to report that Ansible now supports NCLU out of Continue reading
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The Tectonic update targets cloud vendor lock-in.
Editor's Note: At the Internet Society’s Annual General Meeting in June 2017, Gihan Dias will be leaving the Board. Thank you Gihan for your service and contributions.
Although I have been a Trustee of the Internet Society for three years now, my relationship with ISOC goes back much further – to 1995 when I attended the ISOC networking workshop for developing countries, held in Prague, Czech Republic. It was a really fantastic experience. Not only did we learn how to build the Internet, but we also met many of the people who actually built it!
The additional funding will be used to expand globally.
Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have bought large chunks of IPv4 space.
The agreement replaces myriad software license agreements.
The SD-WAN architecture is well suited for the cloud because a company can install a WAN CPE but manage the system from the cloud.