Dean Kalla Manager, Software Engineering - Arista Networks, Mike Choi Software Engineer - Meta
This presentation details integrating open source FBOSS and OpenBMC on network switches, leveraging BMC-ready designs and their respective open-source stacks for comprehensive control plane and data plane management. A key focus is the common hardware designs with BMC-Lite architecture, allowing BMC to perform key out of band features, but offloads the switch management to the host CPU.
A core initiative involves migrating critical hardware management from the traditional BMC to the host CPU, streamlining operations. The presentation will delve into the OpenBMC stack, the latest advancements in FBOSS OSS, and config-driven hardware platform descriptions, enabling extensible FBOSS support across diverse network switches.
