APIClarity
Cloud native visibility tool for APIs. Uses a Service Mesh framework to analyze API traffic and identify potential risks. Works with OpenAPI specs.
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KubeClarity
KubeClarity is a tool for detection and management of Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) and vulnerabilities of container images and filesystems.
Network Service Mesh
The Hybrid/Multi-cloud IP Service Mesh that frees Kubernetes Pods to network with other workloads across multiple clusters/clouds using simple APIs.
Media Streaming Mesh
A new concept for supporting real-time apps. MSM enables developers to focus on business logic while it facilitates microservice connectivity.
Projects
From API visibility to machine learning to conversational AI, check out these projects for insight, inspiration and reusable code. If you want to learn more about the technology details behind these and our other projects, take a look at Cisco’s Tech Blog .
Application Security
APIClarity
Cloud native visibility tool for APIs. Uses a Service Mesh framework to analyze API traffic and identify potential risks. Works with OpenAPI specs.
KubeClarity
KubeClarity is a tool for detection and management of Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) and vulnerabilities of container images and filesystems.
Open infrastructure
Network Service Mesh
The Hybrid/Multi-cloud IP Service Mesh that frees Kubernetes Pods to network with other workloads across multiple clusters/clouds using simple APIs.
Media Streaming Mesh
A new concept for supporting real-time apps. MSM enables developers to focus on business logic while it facilitates microservice connectivity.
MindMeld
MindMeld is a Conversational AI platform in a Python-based machine learning framework.
OPNFV
OPNFV (Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization) has set out to become the base infrastructure layer for running virtual network functions.
Fast Data Project
Relentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency for more flexible and scalable networks and storage.
Calico-VPP
Integration of VPP, a fast userspace networking stack, as a dataplane for Calico.
API Insights
Validates and scores OpenAPI specifications files against guidelines based on rulesets. It can be used via a VS Code extension and integrated into your CI/CD pipeline.
Application networking
Dex
Dex is an identity service that uses OpenID Connect to drive authentication for other apps.
Logging-Operator
Automates the deployment and configuration of a Kubernetes logging pipeline. Based on Fluentd and Fluent-bit.
Bank-Vaults
An umbrella project that provides various tools for Vault to make using Hashicorp Vault easier, including a wrapper for the official Vault client.
Thanos-Operator
Thanos Operator is a Kubernetes operator to manage Thanos stack deployment on Kubernetes.
Koperator
An operator for managing Apache Kafka on Kubernetes that automates the provisioning, management, and autoscaling of Apache Kafka clusters.
Istio-Operator
Istio-operator is a Kubernetes operator to deploy and manage Istio resources for a Kubernetes cluster.
Infrastructure Security
Traffic generation & analysis
Snort
It is an open source intrusion prevention system capable of real-time traffic analysis and packet logging.
TRex
TRex is an open source, low cost, stateful and stateless traffic generator fuelled by DPDK.
Joy
A package for capturing and analyzing network flow data and intraflow data, for network research, forensics, and security monitoring.
Network data models
YANG Development Kit
The YDK can generate APIs in a variety of programming languages using YANG models.
YANG Catalog
The YANG Catalog is used to search for YANG data models. This can be used for new users who are trying to figure out which YANG data model to use.
OpenDaylight
Provides a model-driven service abstraction layer that allows you to develop applications for a wide variety of hardware and southbound protocols.
ONAP
A comprehensive platform for orchestration, management, and automation of network and edge computing services.
See open source code samples
Python
CiscoDevNet
python_code_samples_network
A collection of Python Code Samples for Network Management. Includes samples to run on-box and off-box.
Go
banzaicloud
bank-vaults
A Vault swiss-army knife: a K8s operator, Go client with automatic token renewal, automatic configuration, multiple unseal options and more. A CLI tool to init, unseal and configure Vault (auth methods, secret engines). Direct secret injection into Pods.
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