Adding varlink support for Nmstate: GSoC 2020 under Fedora projects

Mentee

Arunagirinadan Sudharshan

• Github handle : @SudhanAruna

Mentors

• Fernando Fernandez Mancera
• Till Maas
• Gris Ge

About the project and tasks

Nmstate is a python library that manages the networking setting of the host using the NetworkManger to apply the configuration. Tasks assigned to me as a GSoC mentee was to implement varlink support to libnmstate functions which enables nmstate to used by other programming languages and systems.

Progress

I was able start working on this tasks in mid of community bonding period. During this GSoC period I learnt alot about open source community and approches in development.

Below are patches I worked to understand the project code base (Before community bonding period).

• PR #953 [Merged] fix for Issue #935

• PR #1030 [Merged] fix for Issue #1020

Following are links for the implementing varlink support

• Implementing varlink support for libnmstate PR #1270 [Merged]

• Implemented systemd service for nmstate-varlink PR #1271 [Merged]

• Updated manpage for nmstate-varlink PR #1297 [Merged]

• Added documentation for nmstate-varlink service in nmstate.io PR #44

I have also written blog post under fedora community blog post about the implementation of varlink in nmstate and about my experience during the implementation as mentee.

• Blog post

To do

Additionally task to be completed is improve kubernetes-nmstate to support varlink implementation in nmstate.