Fernando Fernandez Mancera

Configuring your network setup can be hard sometimes, especially for sysadmins working with remote systems. Nmstate is a library with an accompanying command line tool that manages host networking settings in a declarative manner. In this talk we will see how Nmstate will help us to exploit the full potential of NetworkManager by making use of checkpoints, rollbacks and verifications.

Configuring routes, routing policy, DNS and interfaces have never been easier.

When creating a script or a tool to manage your network configuration it is hard to decide which language should you use. In Nmstate we noticed we could get plenty of benefits from Rust. Nmstate is a library with an accompanying command line tool that manages host networking settings in a declarative manner written in Rust. In this talk, we are going to see how we combined several existing libraries and also created our own ones to create a powerful networking tool.

In addition, we will share our lessons learned from rewriting a project from Python to Rust. Of course, the talk will be full of crabs, so don't miss it!