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First, disclaimer: I’m an HPE employee. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a major contributor to the OpenSwitch project. Just thought you should know in case you think that affects my opinion here.
If you need more info on the OpenSwitch project, you can check out the other post in this series here and here
Network Engineers Don’t Like Learning New Things
Got your attention, didn’t I? After the first couple of posts on OpenSwitch and a lot of discussions about this cool new project at some recent events, there was one piece of feedback that came back fairly consistently from the traditional engineers. OpenSwitch is hard to get running because there’s so many new things to learn.
When released in November of last year, the initial demonstration environment was actually pretty simple and streamlined to get up and running, as long as you’re a developer.
The process involved the standard set of dev tools:
- Virtual Box
- Vagrant
- DockerToolbox
- Docker
For anyone involved in a development environment, these tools are like an old hoody on a cold winter day. Welcome and familiar.
But for the majority of network engineers who are far more comfortable with a console cable and Continue reading