07.07. YANG and NETCONF (Pieter Lexis)

07.07. - June 30, 2022

As last time this will be a hybrid event, we’ll meet in person and also stream and record the presentation part. And as you may have guessed the presentation will be in English.

If you are joining for food and drinks after the presentation make sure to register here to we can reserve for enough people:

https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/oi9Qq7tZ58m5QpZe

We’ll start at 19:00.

Stream: : https://vc5.cms.hu-berlin.de/b/mic-crd-f3x-vxs

HU Berlin
Universitätsstraße 3b
Raum 002/003
S-Friedrichstr

Abstract

In the operations world, there’s a disconnect between the system administrators and the network administrators. The sys-admins have automation tools that don’t integrate with the NFV/SDN standards used by “pure” network operations.

In RFC 3535, the Internet Architecture Board stated that network equipment should provide defined models and a unified configuration API. This resulted in the standardization of YANG (a data modeling language) and NETCONF (an RPC protocol for configuration that carries instantiated YANG data).

In this talk, I’ll be discussing the configuration management landscape (from a system administrator perspective), explain a bit about YANG and NETCONF and how these two technologies can be used to automate network functions that are running on Linux instead of dedicated network equipment.