[Ginger-dev-list] Regarding network management tool for ginger host network functionalities

[Abhiram Kulkarni]

Hi Team,

I was going through ginger backlogs, saw that network bonding management was one among them. So i started investigation on this topic.

With respect to host network management currently i can think of below ways to manage via
1)ip commands(iproute)
2)via ifcfg(manually modify the network scripts)
3)network manager by executing nmcli commands
4)python network manager via dbus https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-networkmanager this needs investigation(any inputs ?? )
5)any other way??

-->iproute is not persistent that is once the system reboot the configuration made is no more. This can be used along with manual modification of network scripts to make it persistent.
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-->Network manager is the best available option as most of the latest distros available are supporting the same. we can exploit nmcli commands to get our network functionalities done.
If any feature is not supported  by network manager then we go ahead with manual way for those specific cases.

-->If the network manager is not supported in any specific version of distro we can go ahead with manual way of configuration using ifcfg...

Can someone  please point me the different distros with version that ginger officially is planning to support or supporting?
My suggestion is use network manager or any other default tools that comes with OS as much as possible rather than reimplementing everything fresh.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks
Abhiram