PremDay #2 - Lightning Talk - Why you should have SONiC on your infra

Kevin Petremann presents its journey at operating SONiC in production at scale on Criteo's infrastructure.

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1. Why you should have SONiC on your infra SONiC Staff SRE – Network-DC team Criteo Kevin Petremann
2. - Leading open-source Network OS - Initially Datacenter L3 LAN oriented: BGP, EVPN etc... - Based on Debian - Running services in containers: FRR, lldpd etc… - SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface): vendor independent spec to drive ASICs What is SONiC
3. Two SONiC flavors: - Community SONiC: open-source - SONiC enterprise: we don’t want that Community SONiC for the win
4. 4 See a difference?
5. 5 See a difference? No community SONiC Or no public access to SAI driver = we don't buy Community SONiC And public access to SAI driver = we buy
6. - We deploy SONiC at scale since 2020 - 1500 routers WW: ToR and Spines - Not on Edge Routers - Soon on management network - Result: our network did not explode - No major production incidents due to SONiC - No toil in our day-to-day job 6 SONiC just works
7. - Different hardware, same software - One stack: same tools, same monitoring - More control: - We can customize it - We can run anything we want - Easier advanced troubleshoot and live patch 7 Why SONiC
8. - The community needs you: - More users = a stronger SONiC - More users = more hardware options - Let's build an infra owner community via the Prem'Day user group 8 Conclusion: join us in this adventure
9. Thank you! 9 usergroup-public@lists.premday.org Feel free to reach out