OpenConfig Automation

• Consortium of network operators
• Not a Standards Org
• Wants good FOSS YANG models
• Wants good FOSS to interact with YANG models

OpenConfig is a collaborative effort by network operators to develop programmatic interfaces and tools for managing networks in a more dynamic, vendor-neutral way.

Source: What is Openconfig?

Ecosystem

Google has done a lot of work in this area, their contributions are FOSS, and they’d like to see it widely adopted.

Most of the existing network paradigms fail at scale.

SNMP at scale is very broken.

Courtesy of NANOG 90, Rob Shakir’s Keynote

References

google/gnxi: gNXI Tools - GitHub

Rob Shakir’s - Tag “openconfig”

Rob Shakir’s - Public Projects

Network Visibility for the Automation Age - Rob Shakir

IETF 98 - Observations on Modeling Configuration and State in YANG

RFC 5218: What Makes for a Successful Protocol? | RFC Editor