Hi everyone,





While developers are working on the 1.2.0 release candidate, myself I’ve been looking into ways to improve the social and commercial aspects of project.

I’m happy to have established a positive relationship with a few companies, many of whom are themselves open source project developers and are ready to support other open source project.

The following open source tools will be added to our toolchain:

- SonarQube by SonarSource is a source code analyzer that will help us improve code quality of the 1.2.0 and subsequent releases.

It’s odd that we didn’t know about it before, but now that we know of it, I hope it will change the project for the better. It uses an open core model and SonarCloud SaaS offering is available with no cost for open sources projects.

- Discourse is a great discussion board software that will replace our old mybb forum. The old forum is now in read only mode to allow migration of the old topics to Discourse, and you give the new forum a try at https://forum.vyos.io. Discourse kindly offered us a discount for managed hosting via their open source program. The domain will be eventually changes to discourse.vyos.io (as per their discounted hosting plan requirements), but we’ll setup a redirect from both old domains when it’s ready.

On the commercial side, we are happy to announce that we now a part of two important Technology Alliances:

VMware Technology Alliance Program - Access Level will allow us to validate VyOS 1.2 OVA as a VMware Ready solution, which is also the first step towards the vCloud NFV certification. We hope it will help VyOS gain trust of the enterprise users and increase its adoption in that market.

Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Partner Program opens doors to the Nutanix platform for us. One of our goals from the beginning has been to bring VyOS to as many virtual platforms as possible, and it already runs on VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM, so Nutanix AHV support is a logical continuation of that effort, and we will also be listed on the Nutanix Marketplace to make it easy to deploy for Nutanix users.





I suppose these steps will help VyOS move forward and become a more successful project!