SONiC - Reliability, Manageability and Extensibility
SONiC Ansible Test Automation
Enabling PIM card hot swapping in SONiC for Minipack
SONiC at Comcast Datacenters
SONiC is expanding outside Cloud - Comcast is deploying SONiC in their datacenter and building an AI based network monitoring on top of SONiC with Augtera Networks !!! Mellanox Announces Support Solutions for SONiC Open Source Network Operating System.
SONiC test sub-group has been formed with the mission of building a sophisticated test suite.
SONiC RELEASE UPDATES
SONiC community is working hard on 201910 release, which will reach code complete in November. The community has been focusing on multiple major changes in the recent months and happy to share the status.
1. HLD reviews for all the features planned for 201910 are completed. 2. Code Pull Request Progress - Approximately 50% merged, 20% under review and 30% in progress. 3. Code freeze is planned by end of November 2019. 4. Joint test is planned by multiple contributors in the month of November.
SAI community has released SAI 1.5 in September 2019 that includes the new features like NAT, TAM2.0, sflow, SAI counters and debug counters. This SAI 1.5 is included in this SONiC 201910 release.
SAI community is happy to announce that community is working on gearbox and MACsec API standardization.
Next release : Planning started to build the backlog.