The SD-WAN operator is a simple Kubernetes controller that enforces Cilium Mesh traffic management policies across a Cisco SD-WAN network substrate. The operator uses the Δ-controller Kubernetes operator framework.

• A Kubernetes cluster (v1.28+)
• kubectl access to the cluster
• A Cisco vManage instance with API access credentials
• helm v3+

Create a values.yaml with your vManage connection details:

vmanage:
  url: https://<vmanage-host>:443
  username: admin
  password: <your-password>
  insecure: false

helm repo add sdwan-operator https://l7mp.github.io/sdwan-operator/
helm repo update
helm install sdwan-operator sdwan-operator/sdwan-operator \
  --namespace sdwan-operator \
  --create-namespace \
  -f values.yaml

kubectl get pods -n sdwan-operator

This project was featured in the CNCF blog post Connecting distributed Kubernetes with Cilium and SD-WAN: Building an intelligent network fabric.

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