[192837] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Denis Fondras)
Tue Nov 29 03:36:22 2016
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:36:14 +0100
From: Denis Fondras <xxnog@ledeuns.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <c718b3d6-d660-46f8-65b7-ffac5e83ac15@seacom.mu>
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> On 28/Nov/16 19:53, Kasper Adel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Vendor X wants you to run their VNF (Router, Firewall or Whatever) and they
> refuse to give you root access, or any means necessary to do 'maintenance'
> kind of work, whether its applying security updates, or any other similar
> type of task that is needed for you to integrate the Linux VM into your IT
> eco-system.
>
> Would this be an acceptable offering in today's IT from different type of
> Enterprises (Minux the Googles, Facebooks...etc) ?
>
As long as the vendor will be held liable for ANY (and I mean it) problem that
could happen on my infrastructure.
