Netforce

Netforce is a network infrastructure automation service for managing and configuring network devices.

• Since it is using OpenStack Neutron's framework, it supports OpenStack Keystone authentication along with noauth.
• It can also be used as a plugin to Neutron leveraging Neutron's routed networks.

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To start as a developer:

$ git clone https://github.com/eBay/pynetforce.git
$ cd netforce
$ virtualenv ~/Downloads/netforce-dev
$ source ~/Downloads/netforce-dev/bin/activate
$ tox

Features supported for a network switch:

• Port Enable
• Port Disable
• Port-vlan flip
  • Validation support for VLAN change from trunk to access and vice versa for a physical port.
• Create subnet on vlan interface
  • Validation support for BGP configured bubbles using flat/non-flat networks.
• Port labelling

Vendor OS supported:

• Juniper: junos
• Cisco: nxos and ios
• Arista: eos

TODO:

• NAPALM integration: Increase the device driver coverage by adding more device driver functions.

• OpenConfig Integration: Integrate with OpenConfig to program openconfig enabled devices using yang models as Netforce gives a unified api layer.

Note:

• Not all Vendor device OS versions have been tested.

• e.g. new versions of eos supports json parsing and old versions don't. Hence, device drivers are written to support both old and new versions.

Useful links:

https://www.openstack.org/videos/boston-2017/netforce-extending-neutron-to-support-routed-networks-at-scale-in-ebay

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). See Apache License