New Features¶

• A device management driver interface using stevedore for dynamic loadinghas been added. The base driver includes two abstract base classesBaseDeviceDriver andBaseDeviceClient.

• Added anOpenConfig based device driver(driver name:netconf-openconfig) using Network Configuration Protocol(NETCONF). Implements network create, delete and update functionalityas well as port create, delete and update.

• Added support to configure LACP (802.3ad) link-aggregates in thenetconf-openconfig device driver.

• Added support forpre-configured link-aggregates in thenetconf-openconfig device driver. This is useful for the followinglinux bond modes:

  • balance-rr

  • balance-xor

  • broadcast

• OpenConfig YANG data model python bindings.

  Bindings for a subset of the OpenConfig YANG models has been added, thesebindings can be used to build a structured configuration that can beserialized and sent to a network device (switch) where it will be parsedand applied. Serialization to XML which can be used with NetworkConfiguration Protocol (NETCONF) has been implemented.

  The bindings is only a small subset of the following YANG models, itimplements what is required to provide a good feature-set for BMaaS usecase.

  • http://openconfig.net/yang/interfaces

  • http://openconfig.net/yang/interfaces/ethernet

  • http://openconfig.net/yang/vlan

  • http://openconfig.net/yang/network-instance

  • http://openconfig.net/yang/interfaces/aggregate

  • http://openconfig.net/yang/lacp