Infrastructure failure
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 infra...
Building VyOS images with custom packages just got simpler
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 w...
Versions mystery revealed
Over last few years, I saw many combinations and theories around VyOS, Vyatta, EdgeOS that I decided to shed light on this and also explain current and future V...
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VyOS 1.2.0 development news in June
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. RA...
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Writing migration scripts (and manipulating VyOS config files outside VyOS) just got easier
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 int...
Things the new style configuration mode definitions intentionally do not support
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...
New-style operational mode command definitions are here
We've had a convertor from the new style configuration command definitions in XML to the old style "templates" for a while in VyOS 1.2.0. As I predicted, a numb...
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VyOS 1.2.0 status update
While VyOS 1.2.0 nightly builds have been fairly usable for a while already, there are still some things to be done because we can make a named release candidat...
On security of GRE/IPsec scenarios
As we've already discussed, there are many ways to setup GRE (or something else) over IPsec and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Recently an is...
When VyOS CLI isn't enough
Sometimes a particular configuration option is supported by the software that VyOS uses, but the CLI does not expose it. Since VyOS is open source, you can alwa...
