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VyOS JP Meetup

A bit about VyOS and build-ami

Presenter: Patrick van Staveren

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About Me

  • http://github.com/trickv
  • http://trick.vanstaveren.us/
  • IRC: trickv
  • I work for Mintel in 上海
  • I am Global Head of IT Infrastructure
  • Servers & routers at 15 sites
    • 9 Countries!

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Why am I here?

  • VyOS is so popular in Japan!
  • Google Trends for VyOS and Vyatta

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Mintel’s OSPF network

(confidential...)

Mintel’s OSPF router diagram

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VyOS build-ami

  • Written by hydrajump�
  • Now official: github.com/vyos/build-ami

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How it works

  • Ansible
  • Makes EC2 machine
  • Install VyOS to a second disk
  • Make AMI of second disk

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Ansible

EC2 instance

AMI

My Computer

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Marketplace

  • It is behind VyOS :(
  • Latest is 1.0.5
  • add system image <1.1.0 iso>
  • Message me (trickv) for AMI IDs

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(demo)

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The future

  • Build images for all virtualization platforms
    • Rackspace, Google Cloud, Azure, etc.
  • Use Packer to automate?
  • We need help!