Ready for an upgrade?

Even though nights are getting longer, our experts ain’t getting any sleepier – let us introduce you to the newest release of lighty.io – 17!

PANTHEON.tech has been one of the largest contributors to the OpenDaylight code for several years – hence we were eager to implement the latest changes from the Chlorine SR2 release.

Come have a look at what we have achieved and how we have been doing since the launch of the previous version.

Certified CNF

Starting with the latest and greatest news – two of our lighty.io apps:

• lighty.io RESTCONF-NETCONF App
• lighty.io gNMI App

have been officially certified as Certified CNFs, issued by the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation.

New Features

Every major release deserves some new features to go along with it. lighty.io 17 is not far behind and introduces a couple of them:

• Keeping up with OpenDaylight Chlorine SR2 release
• Open-source the lighty-guice-app example
  • Our team has open-sourced a previously unavailable example, which allows lighty.io to work with the Google Guice framework, based on Java
• New lighty.io RNC app cluster GitHub workflow test
  • Read more about clustering in the lighty.io RNC app here
• Add configuration for basic authorization to AAA
  • Our Authentication, Authorization & Accounting module has a new configuration for basic authorization
• Reusable workflow for lighty.io App test jobs
• Replace reload4j with log4j2

Improvements & Security Fixes

Among the new features are improvements and security fixes, which our team was working on to make the lighty.io experience better, faster and safer for everyone to use:

• Replaced javax with jakarta
• Changed ODL compatibility release in documentation
• Fix reported CVE-2020-36518 & CVE-2022-2048 issues
• Fixed the vulnerabilities reported from previous version

Learn about other lighty.io tools below

We have already mentioned the 2 of our apps above (lighty.io RESTCONF-NETCONF App & lighty.io gNMI App). But that’s not the end! Let us introduce you to some more apps:

lighty.io YANG Validator

By using the lighty.io framework, our customers are able to create, validate and visualize the YANG data models of their application.

lighty.io NETCONF Simulator

Need to simulate hundreds of NETCONF devices for development purposes? Look no further! With lighty.io NETCONF Simulator based on lighty.io 17 core, you are able to simulate any NETCONF device and test its compatibility with your use-case.

[Release] And generally speaking of releases, there has been a new version of lighty.io NETCONF Simulator 17 released too! Click here for all the delivered changes.

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It has been a busy summer for PANTHEON.tech & our developers of our leading product lighty.io. For all those interested in new information, here is a round-up of all the examples and demos we have published on our social media.

Integrating lighty.io & CCSDK (ONAP)

In the last weeks, we are intensively working, together with the wonderful ONAP community, on proposing to remove existing dependencies on the OSGi Framework and Karaf from the CCSDK project – while still maintaining the same OpenDaylight services, which the community knows and uses. We will deep-dive on our proposal soon in a separate post, so stay tuned!

Spring Boot Example

Full NETCONF/RESTCONF stack for the Spring Boot runtime.

We have recently succeeded in running RESTCONF in a Springboot example, designed for lighty. Springboot is now able to run in a full OpenDaylight/lighty.io stack.

Spring Boot makes it easy to just run & create stand-alone, Spring-based Applications. It boasts no code generation or requirement for XML configuration, automatic configuration of Spring functionality and radically improves the pure Spring deployment and development.

Clustered Application Demo

lighty.io running as a clustered RESTCONF/NETCONF SDN controller application. From now on, it supports deployment in Akka cluster, so you are not limited to single-node SDN controllers.

Furthermore, you can deploy lighty.io as a Kubernetes cluster.

TransportPCE Controller

lighty.io TransportPCE Controller is now upstreamed in the OpenDaylight Project! We have previously managed to migrate TransportPCE into lighty. Now, you can see the code for yourself in the OpenDaylight repository. 

We have previously published a how-to on how to migrate the OpenDaylight TransportPCE to lighty.io.

BGP/EVPN Router

We are planning on extending the BGP function of an SDN controller with an EVPN extension in the BGP control-plane. We will discuss BGP-EVPN functions in SDN controllers and how the lighty.io BGP function can replace existing legacy BGP route reflectors, running in service provider’s WAN or DC networks.