External VLANs and (NVIDIA) Cumulus Linux
For the past little while, I’ve been quite involved in hardware automation. Whether it’s spinning up cloud environments (with OpenStack) or working with services on bare-metal machines outside of a cloud-like environment, the common requirement is: Power Internet (sometimes optional) Networking switches Servers (for compute, storage, or both) Cables (sometimes numerous) This blog post will focus on some of my recent experiences with Cumulus Linux, as I’ve had to deal with it as part of a deployment for an OpenStack cloud....