As Flint has recently co-sponsored Cisco’s Automation Developer Days in Stockholm, Flint’s network orchestration team recently had the opportunity to learn about an array of exciting updates for network management, introduced by Cisco. One of the highlights was the unveiling of a new workflow engine along with a range of features for Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator (NSO).
The new Crosswork Workflow Manager product is designed to orchestrate provisioning across disparate domains, such as multiple separate NSO deployments. We were excited to learn workflow modelling is based on vendor-neutral Serverless Workflow – https://serverlessworkflow.io/, a CNCF Sandbox project). It’s great to see some standardization, instead of every vendor reinventing the wheel.
On the NSO side, our team got a first look at the Phased Provisioning feature for batch scheduling configuration changes and the all-new Raft HA. Seeing how Raft is a modern, hands-off replication algorithm that powers platforms such as Kubernetes, we can’t wait to take it for a test ride this summer.
Some interesting advancements were also presented for NSO observability. The new package released soon will give you better insights into what is happening inside the NSO and how you can improve your services for better throughput and performance. This is especially important for NSO from version 6.0 which introduces concurrency in service execution.
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