AUTOMATE NETWORKS FASTER

A Helm chart for FRINX-machine for Smart Edge Open 21.12

Overview of FRINX

FRINX builds software that enables customers to create automated, repeatable, digital processes to build, grow and operate their digital infrastructure. Communication service providers are choosing FRINX products and solutions to automate cloud assets, data centers, branch offices, core, edge and access networks. The goal of automation is to provide programmatic interfaces to save time and resources in deploying infrastructure changes and to provide a cost-effective basis for adding new functionality and services. FRINX provides software that enables low-code workflow design and operation, analytics to support machine learning and intent-based infrastructure control to integrate devices and services from many networking vendors. FRINX has offices in Bratislava, Slovakia and New York, NY. The company is now part of Elisa Polystar. Further information is available on frinx.io.

Application Description

FRINX Machine is a dockerized deployment of multiple elements. The FRINX Machine enables large scale automation of network devices, services and retrieval of operational state data from a network. User specific workflows are designed through the use of OpenConfig NETCONF & YANG models, vendor native models, and the CLI. The FRINX Machine uses dockerized containers that are designed and tested to work together to create a user specific solution.

Prerequisites

Configuration
Compute (vCores)	8
Memory (RAM)	24 GB

Usage

Repository

The Frinx-machine is available in the smart-edge-open/edgeapps repository. To obtain it, just clone the repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/smart-edge-open/edgeapps

Then, into applications/frinx-machine folder there is helm chart for installing it.

Install the Chart

Run the following commands to deploy through helm:

helm install –namespace frinx –create-namespace frinx-machine ./

Test Output

NAME: frinx-machine
LAST DEPLOYED:
NAMESPACE: frinx
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1

Configure frinx-machine

If you want to test frinx-machine you can deploy demo-workflows for testing with the following command

helm upgrade –set demo-workflows.enabled=true –namespace frinx frinx-machine ./

Test Output

NAME: frinx-machine
LAST DEPLOYED:
NAMESPACE: frinx
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1

Uninstall Chart

helm uninstall –namespace frinx frinx-machine

Test Output

release ”frinx-machine” uninstalled

Additional Information

All configuration options of dependencies can be found here: Artifact Hub

License

A 30-day trial license of UniConfig is included, if you would like to change the license, add the license string in values.yaml `uniconfig.license` env variable with your own.

Where to Purchase