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Proposal for peer-mount #30

Open italobusi opened 9 months ago

italobusi commented 9 months ago

A proposal for peer-mount from Alex Clemm: Peer-Mount + inventory.pdf

italobusi commented 9 months ago

2023-09-13 Network Inventory weekly call

Alex presented some slide to describe a proposal for Peer-Mount: Peer-Mount + inventory.pdf

The Peer-Mount solution provides a capability to mount subtrees from remote datastores into a local datastore analogous to mounting remote directories in a distributed file system. This enables providing federated datastores with a holistic network view without the need for redundant models and copies of the same data across different systems. Such a capability could become of interest in the future should increasing amounts of management data need to be integrated with network inventory data, for example current state of inventoried elements, data about interfaces, etc.

The proposal was overall well-received, with several attendees contributing to the discussion, involving questions related to scalability, differences between peer-mount and schema-mount, instantiation vs modeling issues. A 00 draft is in the works and Alex stated that the authors of Peer-Mount are looking for potential coauthors.