Cumulus, Dell, Red Hat Demo Linux as Full Stack SDDC
Cumulus Networks announced today that in conjunction with Dell and Red Hat, it has created a 300+ node OpenStack pod using standard open source DevOps tools to manage the deployment from top to bottom (i.e. from the spine switch down to the compute node). I thought that was interesting enough to justify a quick post.
All Linux, All The Time
I visited with Cumulus Linux as part of Networking Field Day 9 and learned two very important things:
- Cumulus co-founder, CEO (at the time), and now CTO, JR Rivers makes a mean cup of espresso;
- The culture at Cumulus is all about standards. It was expressed repeatedly that Cumulus want to ensure that their linux is absolutely standard, so the file system hierarchy should be the standard, configuration files should be where they normally are, and so forth. A system that doesn’t follow those guidelines becomes a special snowflake that can’t be supported by regular tools and, as you’ll see, this attitude has paid dividends in this solution.
The idea of this software stack demo is to take linux-based switches (Dell brite-box
Cumulus-certified hardware running the Cumulus Linux OS) and connect in linux-based compute resources (Dell PowerEdge servers running Continue reading