Re: [vpp-dev] Feedback on a tool: vppcfg

2022-04-02 Thread Jerome Tollet via lists.fd.io
Hi Pim, Over the past few years, we had many discussions about how best can VPP be configured by end users. What is really nice with your proposal is that it’s pragmatic and simple. Actually much more simple than the Netconf/yang (remember Honeycomb…) and probably cover many use cases. I’ve not

Re: [vpp-dev] Feedback on a tool: vppcfg

2022-04-02 Thread Dave Wallace
Hi Pim, This is most excellent!  Thank you for sharing your work. I also have only taken a quick pass through the information you posted, but have been thinking about tackling a YAML or JSON based configuration format to help simplify the unit testing environment and make use case test automa

Re: [vpp-dev] Feedback on a tool: vppcfg

2022-04-02 Thread Florin Coras
Hi Pim, Definitely cool! Haven’t had a chance to go through all of it but the fact that some binary api calls crash vpp is something we should fix. It feels like vppcfg could also be used for extensive vpp api/cli/cfg testing. My quick 0.02$ Regards, Florin > On Apr 2, 2022, at 8:17 AM, Pi

[vpp-dev] Feedback on a tool: vppcfg

2022-04-02 Thread Pim van Pelt
Hoi colleagues, I know there exist several smaller and larger scale VPP configuration harnesses out there, some more complex and feature complete than others. I wanted to share my work on an approach based on a YAML configuration with strict syntax and semantic validation, and a path planner that