S Tachyonic: an open source DEVOPS project for the Networking community Resources to become superhuman! With Python, NETCONF, API(s), and Automation! By: The authors of Tachyonic 

Meet BOB! Meet Bob. Bob is a Network Administrator at a Service Provider. ü IPX ü Appletalk ü DECnet ü Spanning Tree ü RAPS ü VLANS ü VXLAN ü MPLS ü MP-BGP ü IS-IS / OSPF 

Bobs Universe Ø Bob’s world is changing. Ø Networks are not what they used be. Ø Growing more rapidly than ever. Ø More devices and more data. Ø Doing things manually just don’t scale. 

Bobs Universe (cont.) Ø We also need to learn about Cloud Networks: Ø AWS Ø Azure Ø Openstack Ø How do we interconnect/interact with these in a secure fashion? 

Bob The Engineer S Now needs programmatic access to the network S Network must appear as a confederated database S With that, Bob would be a superhero! 

Standard Bodies u SDN – OPENFLOW / BGP PCEP u NETCONF – OPENCONFIG 

Network Vendors u Arista via RESTAPI (json) u Cumulus switches via ansibile u Cisco via ACI, NETCONF u Alcatel, Juniper via NETCONF u Procera and Sandvine via REST API u F5 Networks via REST API u Mikrotic custom API 

Community of orchestration building blocks available all purely built in python o Ansible – Simple IT Automation o Salt Stack - Configuration management software and remote execution engine. Supporting the "Infrastructure as Code" approach o Juju – Orchestration tool developed by Cannoncial. 

Where does this leave Bob? S ncclient -> S PyEZ -> S NAPALM S And many more: S Fabric (Command Line streaming over SSH) S SNMP Libraries S Agent Modules S Python Log Parsing 

So Bob has options, but… none of them has all the answers. q Python q HTML q WSGI Frameworks q Netconf (NCCLIENT module) q Napalm (Integration with Cisco / Juniper) q Pyeazy Juniper Netconf client. q RestAPI (JSON / XML) 

One problem leads to another.. 1. Bob is a network engineer, not a developer, that has been thrown into a whole new universe of automation and DevOPS. 2. Even in this world, technology is moving at an accelerated pace. 

The Solution…. Tachyonic 

Tachyonic Ø It is an Open Source Framework Ø Built with Python Ø Has two components: Ø Web UI Ø Rest API Ø (In fact the Web UI simply uses the API in the back end) Ø So everything you can do in the Web UI, you can do with direct REST API calls as well 

Tachyonic (cont.) Ø Multi Tiered Ø Multi Tenant Ø Domains Ø RBAC Ø Fully customizable Ø Modular/Extensible Ø Flexible 

Projects Ø tachyonic_neutrino Ø tachyonic_api Ø tachyonic_ui Ø tachyonic_common Ø tachyonic_client 

Tachyonic Neutrino 

Default web interface 

Default UI / Customer Portal 

Example policy.json 

Use Case: Netrino Ø Netrino is an example of a Tachyonic module Ø It acts as the middleware between your network, and your OSS/BSS 

Use Case: Netrino (cont) Ø Netrino is a network orchestration tool: Ø It retrieves information from the network Ø Eg devices, ports, ip & mac addresses Ø It pushes configuration to the network devices Ø either triggered via WEB UI, or API call Ø Services are defined with templates (jinja2 templating engine) Ø Creating a Service Requests involves linking a Customer, to a Service, to a device port 

Use case: Netrino (cont) S Example Service Request: 

More Use cases: S Management / Using any of the following, or all of them. S Email accounts S SIP Accounts S VPN Accounts S Monitoring of Network / Infrastructure / Servers S Reporting – again, this can be customized S Helpdesk / Incident Reporting Possibilities are ENDLESS!!! 

Current Projects S Wingu (an OpenStack Public IAAS provider) has contributed Open Source Openstack Connectors that plug into Tachyonic. S Wingu is also going to release Cloud Kitty integration. S And there’s a lot more in the pipeline, including network automation code written for Xon. 

Road Map S Maturity of code and documentation. S Billing, helpdesk completely integrated. S Several basic modules to manage services. S Major modules for BGP PCEP for Segment Routing (SDN Controller) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualized). S Globalized resource manager (IP addresses/ VLAN’s, etc) 

In Summary… Ø We have done all the hard work, and now Bob only needs to focus on his python, which he can plug into our framework. 

Conclusion We hope to find some interested parties that could either benefit from what we’ve built, or would like to join our community and build on something that will make it possible for every other Bob out there to become a superhero. 

How to become part of the Tachyonic community Website: http://tachyonic.co.za Slack Channel: ZA-tech #tachyonic Email: [email protected] Github: https://github.com/TachyonicProject 

Thank You We’d like to thank Wingu for the contributions to our project, as well as the sponsorship that allowed the opportunity to come and present here To PyCon and it’s organizers for having us. And to all of you that came to listen 

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