Hey Rocket Turtle, Pimp My Ride!
This colloquialism for “make my vehicle better” is an appropriate perspective on our recently released Cumulus Linux 3.0, or as we like to say around the office, “3.0.” Our engineering team looked at the upcoming market changes and decided to give Cumulus Linux a pretty sweet makeover.
Starting with the “IP mindset” that prevails in modern deployments, our team worked with the Linux kernel community to add Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) to the kernel and hardware support to Cumulus Linux. VRF is coupled with BGP unnumbered interfaces as an even simpler way to deploy multi-tenant dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networks.
In parallel, we looked at the image installation and upgrade mechanisms, revamping the build, packaging, and base installer. As a result, 3.0 is based on Debian 8 (Jessie) and Linux kernel 4.1 tied together with an entire system that enables the development flexibility of Linux coupled with the testing and support required for wide-scale, enterprise production deployments.
All of this functional horsepower is applied to seven new hardware platforms continuing Cumulus Networks’ industry leading support for Open Networking systems. These platforms cover the gamut of speeds, feeds, and functions; introducing Mellanox Spectrum alongside Broadcom Tomahawk and Continue reading