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VyOS on Equinix Network Edge: Run VyOS 1.5 LTS as a Network Virtual Appliance across Equinix Metros

yago.blanquet@vyos.io (Santiago Blanquet) — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:03 GMT

We've had a lot of conversations with network architects over the past couple of years, and the same tension comes up almost every time. Businesses need to move faster: spin up new regions, connect to more clouds, and respond to a partner request without a six-week hardware procurement cycle. But they're still carrying the consequences of earlier vendor lock-in decisions and aren't eager to repeat them.

Power 5 Podcast: VyOS 1.5 LTS for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

g.yigit@vyos.io (Gizem Yigit) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:30:00 GMT

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization helps teams modernize how they run virtual machines, but production networking still needs to be deliberate. As VM environments grow, teams need stronger segmentation, clearer policy control, predictable performance, and an operating model they can trust.

In this episode of the VyOS Networks Power 5 podcast, Santiago Blanquet, Chief Revenue Officer at VyOS Networks, joins Gizem Yiğit, Marketing Product Manager, to discuss how VyOS 1.5 LTS strengthens Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with enterprise-grade, high-performance networking built for production use.

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VyOS Universal Router on Azure and Accelerated Networking

f.maidana@vyos.io (Fernando Maidana) — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:42:52 GMT

Greetings, Community!

I'm back with an exciting topic:

Azure Accelerated Networking and its integration with VyOS Universal Router. In this discussion, we'll delve into how this powerful feature can be leveraged to create high-performance routers in the Azure cloud environment.

Our focus will be on:

Understanding Azure Accelerated Networking.
Steps to integrate this feature with VyOS.
Practical use cases for building efficient, high-speed routers on Azure.
Potential benefits and considerations.

Hybrid Cloud Network Success Story: AWS Cloud WAN integration with VyOS

f.maidana@vyos.io (Fernando Maidana) — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:32:07 GMT

Hello, Community!

I'm Fernando from the network engineering team at VyOS Networks, and I'd like to introduce an insightful customer success story in our series on cloud networking use cases. I will only refer to the customer as "The Company" to preserve their confidentiality. Still, I'd like to tell you how they vastly improved their hybrid infrastructure using our VyOS routers integrated with the AWS Cloud WAN Tunnel-less Connect feature.

Background

The Company needed to streamline its operations across various global sites without the complexities of traditional VPN tunnels. The introduction of AWS Cloud WAN Tunnel-less Connect on VyOS looked like an optimal solution—connecting VyOS routers directly to AWS Cloud WAN. This integration not only simplified network setups but could also greatly improve the site-to-cloud connection speed since it could use AWS's global high-speed network directly.

The Challenge

"The Company" needed seamless connectivity across multiple data centers and regional offices and wanted to avoid the overhead of tunneling protocols because encapsulation can easily become a bottleneck in high-speed networks. They also wanted a solution to support on-demand operations. At the same time, connection security wasn't an immediate concern since it was implemented at the application protocol level and through site firewall policies.

VyOS is now on AWS Outposts and Azure Stack Hub

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:04:24 GMT

Hello Community! We have not posted much lately, but the work backstage never stops. We keep working on the 1.4 release that should become the new LTS later this year, but even right now, we have good news to share.

Last year one of our customers approached us about Azure Stack Hub support, and since then, Taras and Fernando have worked together to make it possible.

Automation for VyOS in Microsoft Azure Cloud

taras@vyos.io (Taras Pudiak) — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 18:34:11 GMT

Hello, People!

Microsoft Azure is one of the biggest cloud service providers nowadays. VyOS is featured as Microsoft preferred solution and many Azure users are already leveraging VyOS capabilities for connecting to other clouds, private data centers, and on-premises networks. As you may recall, this year VyOS achieved the co-sell ready status with Microsoft:

All VyOS on Azure consumption count toward your commitments
Microsoft CSPs receiving additional incentives when selling VyOS

We also support VyOS on Azure Stack Hub. In other words, the adoption and recognition of VyOS among Azure users are growing and we are happy to see that. Since VPN gateway is one of the most popular use cases, we'll show an example of how to connect your on-prem environment to Azure with VyOS.

VyOS Project 2019 November Update

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:15:00 GMT

Welcome to the monthly round of VyOS project updates. What do we have in store for you?

VyOS Project 2019 - March Update

yuriy@sentrium.io (Yuriy Andamasov) — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:00:00 GMT

Hello, Gents!

It’s been a while from the last update so I thought it’s a good time to share some news.

The team is busy as always, so much done already and much more to be done yet, sometimes it looks like the quantity of the tasks is infinite (and it is). That of course not stopping us, we like challenges and it brings lot of fun too. So here some more info below

VyOS cloud support platform strategy

daniil@sentrium.io (Daniil Baturin) — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:07:00 GMT

Recently we have merged the old VyOS product on Amazon (which was free as in price) with the new one listed by Sentrium (reminder: the company setup by VyOS maintainers to provide commercial services for VyOS) that is available at ~$60/year as a means to support the project. It’s probably a good time to talk about our cloud platform support strategy.

It’s quite obvious that cloud platforms are popular, and that VyOS is often used as an alternative to their own VPN and routing facilities or proprietary products, because of both functionality and price. So far we’ve been providing our official EC2 AMI for free. This approach is not exactly sustainable since we ourselves do not benefit from it in any way, but the support level required of an AMI listed on the marketplace creates work that has to be done, and so far (past the initial contribution of the person who wrote the first AMI build scripts) it has been done solely by the maintainers.

And, let’s face it, VyOS needs funding sources. There are many activities that get virtually no community participation, including documentation writing, code refactoring, developing automated tests and so on. We are grateful to everyone who contributes, but that’s not enough to keep VyOS as a service provider and enterprise quality router. Migration to Jessie was the point when making an enterprise quality router OS by few people in spare time stopped scaling, and now, at least until we refactor the whole system to be easy to maintain and extend, either it's going to take a very long time to get done or we need a way to free the time of the maintainers and hire some community members (or someone else) to get it done at reasonable pace.

Some companies mentioned a possibility of corporate sponsorships but those offers failed to materialize, donations likewise have been enough only to pay for domains and some hosting. Switching to a RedHat-like model with paid access to LTS releases is something that we are considering, but not until a stable 1.2.0 release is made. As for now, an alternative revenue stream is needed to break the cycle, and making the official cloud images paid looks like the most viable option. This wasn't an easy decision, but it had to be made.

We've been keeping both the old (free as in price) 1.1.0 listing and new paid listing updated to 1.1.8 active for a while and so far the new one has been positively received and is already bringing us a small profit. We hope most of the old AMI users will choose to support the project as well, but if not, you have time until February 2018 to migrate your setup to self-built or community AMIs.

Most importantly

VyOS will remain free as in freedom forever — the goal of the project was and is to make a free and open source router that people can study and modify. It will always be possible to build a cloud image yourself and use it for free. While we hope most cloud users who run unmodified images will choose to support the project, trying to prevent people from building their own image would be against the free software ideals. We are also not going to hide the build scripts we use for building the official images, so self-built images will be identical to the official ones — without the convenience of deploying them in one click from the marketplace.

The AMI build scripts for 1.1.x can be found at https://github.com/vyos/build-ami

The build process is fairly straightforward and boils down to "./build-ami $isoURL". Right now it only takes signed releases and ourselves we test new images by upgrading already deployed instances to them, but we may add an option to allow building AMIs from unsigned images in the future.

Free access for contributors

The point of the whole deal is not just to make money for the maintainers, it's to make VyOS a better system and people who support VyOS by contributing to it are equally valuable as people who support it financially by using the paid images.
Everyone who had merged pull requests before this time or made substantial contribution to the documentation, automatically qualifies. New contributors who contribute to high priority areas (particularly, fix bugs in 1.2.0 and/or document the yet undocumented features) will also get free access. Active evangelists may also quality.

Pricing

Currently on the AWS, the base price is set to the minimum possible value of $0.01/hour (or ~$60/year). We expect to follow the same pattern on other cloud platforms, as we'd rather have more people support the project than make it affordable only for bigger companies.

We've compiled a comparison of prices and features of different virtual routers available on the AWS marketplace now to show where VyOS stands in the price/features ratio landscape. It includes products that are exactly routers (rather than SD-WAN or application security solutions) to make them directly comparable, and since the typical role of VyOS in the cloud is a VPN gateway, the focus is on VPN and routing features. Features are considered supported if they can be configured through the default configuration interface, whether out of the box or after installing a plugin in an officially supported way (i.e. without installing packages and editing daemon configs by hand). If we've got anything wrong about the features of other products, please correct us.

Price comparison

Product	Price
Amazon gateway	From $400/year per instance if I got that right
Cisco CSR 1000v	From $2300/year per instance
Juniper vMX	From $400/year per instance
pfSense	From $75/year per instance
Mikrotik RouterOS	From $45 per instance, perpetual
VyOS	From $64/year per instance
CloudRouter	Free

Feature comparison

Product	IPsec site-to-site	VTI	DMVPN	OpenVPN client-server	OpenVPN site-to-site	VXLAN	L2TPv3	L2TP/IPsec	Dynamic routing
Amazon gateway	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes (BGP)
Cisco CSR 1000v	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Juniper vMX	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
pfSense	Yes	No	No	Yes	Partially	No	No	Yes	No
VyOS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mikrotik RouterOS	Yes	No	No	Partially	No	No	No	Yes	Yes

Future cloud platform support

We are planning to expand out presence to other major platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud. Whereever cloud images can be built without human interaction, we are going to make image build scripts free and open source just like for EC2 and keeps the pricing similarly low to our AWS offer.

Also, we forgot to hide a t-shirts discount in the release post, so we are going to fix it here: https://teespring.com/stores/vyos?pr=GOAWS