Arista Networks announced the next phase of Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System), enabling customers to focus on real-time migration from legacy enterprise silos to private, public and hybrid cloud networking. This evolution is based on three powerful building blocks: Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud and Container Support. Arista EOS is the industry's only open and programmable, state-driven, publish-subscribe-notify architecture built for cloud networking.

Building upon Arista's state driven system-level SysDB concept, Arista introduced NetDBTM, a network-wide state repository that increases network scalability, agent efficiency, and resilience. Essential Elements for Cloud Design: Infrastructure - NetDB expands the network roles for Arista's spine platforms. With NetDB enhancements, EOS supports in excess of 1 million routes and 100,000 tunnels for increased cloud scale. NetDB also provides the ability to aggregate the network state of all EOS devices to a common point through the CloudVision platform and, from there, stream network-wide telemetry data to improve network operations visibility and historical analytics.

Built with extensibility at its core, EOS continues to evolve its API infrastructure with new support for agents written in the increasingly popular Go programming language, as well as support for OpenConfig APIs and data models. Hybrid Cloud - Arista EOS features support for workload migration between private and public workloads and CloudVision management for hybrid cloud solutions. By delivering appropriate EOS Tracer tools for cloud-bursting, enterprise customers can seamlessly execute their hybrid cloud roadmap.

This bridges the gap between private and public clouds. Container Support - Arista EOS extends its virtualization support by adding both the ability to run Docker containers on EOS, as well as improved physical and virtual visibility with Container Tracer. Container support in EOS offers customers the flexibility to load container-based applications directly onto the Arista EOS platform.

Complementing visibility tools for bare metal and hypervisor designs, Container Tracer delivers advanced monitoring capabilities for emerging container-based applications. The NetDB EOS enhancements are integrated into the latest EOS releases and are transparent to customer deployments. This natural evolution maintains the same single binary image philosophy and non-disruptive upgrade capabilities.