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VyOS 1.2.0 development news in July

Despite the slow news season and the RAID incident that luckily slowed us down only for a couple of days, I think we've made good progress in July. First, Kim Hagen got ...

On "run reset vrrp master"

07/28/18 21:10 By: Daniil Baturin

I've just exorcised a ghost of the old VRRP CLI implementation — the "reset vrrp master" command. I thought it would go away with the vyatta-vrrp package, but in fact it was in ...

New VRRP CLI is here (with IPv6 support)

07/28/18 0:10 By: Daniil Baturin

Ever since I started with Vyatta, I've had a problem with commands for features unrelated to interfaces being defined inside interfaces. I'm sure the person who came up with that ...

Making first boot scripts just got easier (but building vyos-1x got a bit harder)

07/18/18 12:22 By: Daniil Baturin

As you probably know already, we are working on integrating cloud-init into VyOS, which will allow us to support multiple cloud platforms, and get rid of the custom script for ...

Infrastructure failure resolved, downloads.vyos.io is back now

07/13/18 15:36 By: Daniil Baturin

We have managed to resolve the infrastructure problems and bring the affected machines back intact. Now downloads.vyos.io and ci.vyos.net are back online, and our build hosts ...

Infrastructure failure

07/13/18 11:05 By: Daniil Baturin

Hi everyone, We've had a catastrophic failure on one of our hosts: two drives in a RAID5 failed simultaneously. A number of VMs related to the development infrastructure are ...

Building VyOS images with custom packages just got simpler

06/27/18 14:44 By: Daniil Baturin

While the new build scripts first introduced when we migrated the development branch to jessie made things much simpler for developers and for people who just want to build the ...

VyOS 1.2.0 development news in June

06/20/18 18:33 By: Daniil Baturin

If we haven't written any new blog posts in a while, that's because we've all been busy with development. Here is what happened since the last status update. RADIUS ...

Writing migration scripts (and manipulating VyOS config files outside VyOS) just got easier

05/28/18 13:42 By: Daniil Baturin

Long story short VyOS 1.2.0-rolling (starting with the next nightly build) includes a library for parsing and manipulating config files without loading them into the system ...

Things the new style configuration mode definitions intentionally do not support

05/21/18 13:44 By: Daniil Baturin

I've made three important changes to the design of the configuration command definitions, and later I realized that I never wrote down a complete explanation of the changes and ...