VyOS
VyOS is an open source network operating system based on Debian.[2]
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| Developer | The VyOS Project Community |
|---|---|
| OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 22 December 2013 |
| Latest release | 1.3.3[1] / 22 June 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Marketing target | Enterprise software |
| Available in | English |
| Platforms | amd64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| License | Free software licenses (mainly GPL) |
| Official website | vyos |
VyOS provides a free routing platform that competes directly with other commercially available solutions from well-known network providers. Because VyOS is run on standard amd64 systems, it can be used as a router and firewall platform for cloud deployments.[3][4]
History
After Brocade Communications stopped development of the Vyatta Core Edition of the Vyatta Routing software, a small group of enthusiasts in 2013 took the last Community Edition, and worked on building an Open Source fork to live on in place of the end of life VC.[5][6]
Features[7]
- BGP (IPv4 and IPv6), OSPF (v2 and v3), RIP and RIPng, policy-based routing.
- IPsec, VTI, VXLAN, L2TPv3, L2TP/IPsec and PPTP servers, tunnel interfaces (GRE, IPIP, SIT), OpenVPN in client, server, or site-to-site modes, WireGuard.
- Stateful firewall, zone-based firewall, all types of source and destination NAT (one to one, one to many, many to many).
- DHCP and DHCPv6 server and relay, IPv6 RA, DNS forwarding, TFTP server, web proxy, PPPoE access concentrator, NetFlow/sFlow sensor, QoS.
- VRRP for IPv4 and IPv6, ability to execute custom health checks and transition scripts; ECMP, stateful load balancing.
- Built-in versioning.
Releases
VyOS version 1.0.0 (Hydrogen) was released on December 22, 2013.[8][9] On October 9, 2014, version 1.1.0 (Helium) was released.[10] All versions released thus far have been based on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), and are available as a 32-bit images and 64-bit images for both physical and virtual machines.[9]
On January 28, 2019, version 1.2.0 (Crux) was released.[11] Version 1.2.0 is based on Debian 8 (Jessie).
While version 1.0 and 1.1 were named after elements, a new naming scheme based on constellations is used from version 1.2.[12]
Release History
| Release | Version | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrogen | 1.0.0 | December 22, 2013 |
| 1.0.1 | January 17, 2014 | |
| 1.0.2 | February 3, 2014 | |
| 1.0.3 | May 9, 2014 | |
| 1.0.4 | June 16, 2014 | |
| 1.0.5 | September 26, 2014 | |
| Helium | 1.1.0 | October 9, 2014 |
| 1.1.1 | December 8, 2014 | |
| 1.1.2 | January 22, 2015 | |
| 1.1.3 | January 28, 2015 | |
| 1.1.4 | March 9, 2015 | |
| 1.1.5 | March 25, 2015 | |
| 1.1.6 | August 17, 2015 | |
| 1.1.7 | February 17, 2016 | |
| 1.1.8 | November 13, 2017 | |
| Crux | 1.2.0 | January 28, 2019 |
| 1.2.1 | April 16, 2019 | |
| 1.2.2 | July 15, 2019 | |
| 1.2.3 | September 5, 2019 | |
| 1.2.4 | January 1, 2020 | |
| 1.2.5 | April 14, 2020 | |
| 1.2.6 | September 18, 2020 | |
| 1.2.6-S1 | September 28, 2020 | |
| 1.2.7 | March 25, 2021 | |
| 1.2.8 | July 6, 2021 | |
| Equuleus | 1.3.0 | December 21, 2021 |
| 1.3.1 | March 21, 2022 | |
| 1.3.1-S1 | March 30, 2022 | |
| 1.3.2 | September 7, 2022 | |
| 1.3.3 | June 22, 2023 | |
VMware Support
The VyOS OVA image for VMware was released with the February 3, 2014 maintenance release. It allows a convenient setup of VyOS on a VMware platform and includes all of the VMware tools and paravirtual drivers. The OVA image can be downloaded from the standard download site[13]
Amazon EC2 Support
Starting with version 1.0.2, Amazon EC2 customers can select a VyOS AMI image.[14] (deprecated, will be removed in February 2018[15])
Starting with version 1.1.7, AWS customers should use new marketplace VyOS AMI[16]
Starting with version 1.2.0, AWS customers can deploy new marketplace AMI[17] This new offering now comes with support
Azure Support
Starting with version 1.2.0, Azure customers can use VyOS on Azure[18]
References
- "VyOS 1.3.3". June 22, 2023. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
- "VyOS home page". Retrieved November 9, 2014.
- "VyOS on DistroWatch.com". Retrieved November 9, 2014.
- Review: 6 slick open source routers | InfoWorld
- "Vyatta now rehosted to github as VyOS : networking". reddit. October 11, 2013.
- "[Release] VyOS 1.0.0 - (an enhanced fork, based from the old vyatta project) : networking". reddit. December 22, 2013.
- "Products – VyOS". Retrieved April 11, 2021.
- "Hydrogen". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
- "VyOS - 1.0.0 release". December 22, 2013. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
- "VyOS - 1.1.0 release". October 9, 2014. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
- "VyOS 1.2 (Crux) released". January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- "VyOS development news in August and September". September 16, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- "VMWare - VyOS". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- "Old VyOS image on AWS Marketplace". Retrieved November 9, 2014.
- "VyOS cloud support platform strategy". Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- "New VyOS image on AWS Marketplace". Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- "VyOS 1.2 LTS image on AWS Marketplace". Retrieved February 26, 2018.
- "VyOS on Azure". Retrieved February 1, 2019.
