Nmstate

A Declarative API for Host Network Management

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Declarative Network API

What is it?

Nmstate is a library with an accompanying command line tool that manages host networking settings in a declarative manner. The networking state is described by a pre-defined schema. Reporting of current state and changes to it (desired state) both conform to the schema.

Nmstate is aimed to satisfy enterprise needs to manage host networking through a northbound declarative API and multi provider support on the southbound. NetworkManager acts as the main (and currently the only) provider supported.

Features

Example output

$ sudo nmstatectl show
---
dns:
  config:
    server:
      - 192.0.2.1
    search:
      - example.org
routes:
  config:
    - destination: 0.0.0.0/0
      next-hop-interface: eth1
      next-hop-address: 192.0.2.1
interfaces:
  - name: eth1
    type: ethernet
    description: Main-NIC
    state: up
    ipv4:
      enabled: true
      dhcp: false
      address:
        - ip: 192.0.2.9
          prefix-length: 24
    ipv6:
      enabled: false

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