p4-nix
Combine Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors language with declarative Nix packaging
This project is aiming to democratize high capacity and high performance networking stacks by integrating the P4 DSL into Nix and making it easy to make an infrastructure relying on the technology by bringing up functional programming to the P4 world.
Bringing P4 to Nix gives us amazing flexibility for dealing with network devices, making it easy to deploy, make artifacts, and so on, all the while exposing it to end-users who wouldn't necessarily know or use P4 otherwise. This also gives us the opportunity to look into automated deployment of hardware based networking devices, such as FPGA targets, directly from within Nix.
- The project's own website: https://nixos.org
Run by newtype64 (https://newtype.fr)
This project was funded through the NGI Assure Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 957073.
