ONES Orchestration
Why do we need Network Orchestration?
Orchestration refers to tasks or actions required to achieve a set of objectives for your Network Infrastructure operations
A centralized application like ONES translates these objectives into a network configuration template, applies and monitors to validate the operational efficiency and functionality
Automated tasks are performed on your Network Fabric in a purposeful order and each step is verified for success before moving to the next
ONES Orchestration - Overview
ONES Orchestration function, referred to as Fabric Manager (FM), lets you compose, deploy, and validate network configurations across any SONiC, be it a Community version or a Vendor distro.
As part of the initial release, ONES Orchestration supports to
Create and configure CLOS topology for ToR, Leaf, Spine, and Super-Spine layers
Apply and validate configurations pre- and post-deployment
Compare running configs against applied configs at any point
Upgrade devices with a single click via ZTP or custom NOS images
Restore & Backup configuration feature
Yaml-based config for VXLAN, MCLAG, BGP IP CLOS & EVPN(L2VPN), EVPN Multihoming, L3 EVPN Symmetric IRB, L3EVPN symmetric IRB with MCLAG.
RoCE configuration parameters supported
Automate Configuration of interfaces, layer 3 interfaces, BGP-unnumbered and Common Services like NTP, SNMP, SYSLOG etc.
ONES Orchestration use cases are configured using a set of pre-defined YAML-based templates on ONES Web User Interface
ONES YAML-Based Orchestration:
ONES UI-Based Orchestration:
Fabric Manager CLI
FMCLI is an Industry standard Command Line Interface
Once the user installs Orchestrator Agent (Fabric Manager Agent) on the device, it enables FMCLI
FMCLI provides a user interface to configure all the open standard protocols and is user-friendly
To use FMCLI, the user can run fmcli command on the device to enter in the configuration mode and can configure the protocols or any other required feature
Example of BGP config using fmcli
Supported FMCLI Features
Zero Touch Provisioning
Image Management
Configuration Management
Interface Management
VLAN's
Spanning Tree Protocol
VXLAN
L2 Forwarding Database
LLDP
LACP
DHCP Relay
IP Management
ARP
PING
Traceroute
Routing
BGP*
NTP
SYSLOG
Platform Details
SFLOW
NAT
Forward Error Correction
BFD
SNMP
VRF
AAA & TACACS
Drop Counters
ERSPAN
IP Based ACL
Prefix-list
EVPN Multihoming
Route-map
RoCE
ONES Orchestration Template:
ONES Offer 80+ verified templates to deploy in the infra: YAML Based Configuration
Note: The listed features are fully supported and qualified on both Community SONiC and Edgecore-SONiC versions EC202111 and EC202211.
NetOps API
NetOps API can be used to integrate into customer-running applications, and can be used to perform the Day 1 and Day N configuration, Using NetOps API a user can do all the configurations and can also perform the Partial Configuration
Few Operations can be done By NetOps API
Day-1 Operations: intent upload
SONiC NOS upgrade
Device Reboot
Difference between the Golden Config and running configuration //running & applied configuration
Backup Running Configuration
Replace Config
If config is done by the ONES then only the user can use this replace option to modify the config.
ZTP Upgrade
For more Details on NetOps API check OVD.ai
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