Networking/ONIE

Open Network Install Environment

Created by Cumulus Networks, Inc. in 2012, the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) Project is a small operating system, pre-installed as firmware on bare metal network switches, that provides an environment for automated operating system provisioning.

Incubated and adopted by the Open Compute Project in 2013, the ONIE project enables a bare metal network switch ecosystem where end users can choose among different network operating systems. ONIE enables switch hardware suppliers to manage their operations based on a small number of hardware SKUs. This in turn creates economies of scale in manufacturing and distribution enabling a thriving ecosystem of both network hardware and operating system alternatives.

Testing and Certification

• Testing and Certification Overview
• ONIE Hardware Status
• ONIE Compatible Network Operating System Status

Documentation

• Documentation Home Page
• Quick Start User's Guide

For a deep dive read these pages:

• Design Overview
• For Developers
• Porting Guide

Contact Us

Send questions, bugs, patches, comments and ideas to opencompute-onie@lists.opencompute.org.

Join the mailing list: http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-onie.

Browse the archives http://lists.opencompute.org/pipermail/opencompute-onie.

Join us on IRC:

• #ocp-onie on freenode.net
• #ocp-onie on webchat.freenode.net

Source Code

The ONIE git repository is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/opencomputeproject/onie.

• Current Release Tag: 2014.08
• Release Cycle

The Merge Window for the next release (v2014.11) is open.

The next release (v2014.11) is scheduled to go out around November 12, 2014.