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The NAPALM link seems to be wrong/broken on the NAPALM page under additional features. It links to what looks like a strange feed aggregator. Not sure if anyo
by curryst 5y ago
The NAPALM link seems to be wrong/broken on the NAPALM page under additional features. It links to what looks like a strange feed aggregator. Not sure if anyone from the project is around, I was curious what that library/API/protocol/whatever was.
This is cool for people on the supply side of pure infrastructure. I wish it went a little further up the stack to include applications. It seems to have some rudimentary support via the TCP/IP service options, but it still lacks any concept of clusters.
It would be amazing to me to be able to have it run an analysis like "if we lost this network switch, how many applications would be unaccessible?". This looks like it has the underpinnings to tell me what hosts are going to lose network access, but not to step further up the stack and see what applications are on those hosts, and whether those apps are clustered.
There's basically nothing I've seen for people like SREs that live in the space between infrastructure and code. The infra people have tools like this, and the developers have all kinds of tools to analyze their code, but there's nothing to analyze the mashup of code and infrastructure we call "deployed applications".