Junos OS Evolved Overview

 

Junos OS Evolved is a unified, end-to-end network operating system that provides reliability, agility, and open programmability for successful cloud-scale deployments. With Junos OS Evolved, you can enable higher availability, accelerate your deployments, innovate more rapidly, and operate your network more efficiently. We've aligned Junos OS Evolved with Junos OS so that you can seamlessly continue to manage and to automate your network.

Benefits

Junos OS Evolved provides several benefits to Juniper Networks customers:

• It runs natively on Linux, providing direct access to all the Linux utilities and operations. With Linux integration, you can use standard Linux and open-source tools to speed up onboarding, accelerate feature adoption with a smooth upgrade process, and enjoy enhanced debugging capabilities for streamlined qualification and deployment.
• Support for 3rd party applications and tools. You can run Linux applications directly on Junos OS Evolved using Docker containers, or create custom applications for advanced networking solutions. You can use existing Linux tools and procedures to create custom functions on a developer-friendly platform with a short learning curve. This versatility allows you to create the solution that best fits your needs through simple third-party application integration and the ability to implement the components required for specific use cases.
• You can install multiple different Junos OS Evolved software releases on a device, with support for rolling back to previous versions. This gives you the flexibility to try out different software releases and easily revert back to your preferred version if necessary.
• Enhanced security at all OS layers. Junos OS Evolved uses an integrity solution called Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA), and a companion mechanism called the Extended Verification Module (EVM). These open source protections are part of a set of Linux Security Modules that are industry-standard and consistent with the trust mechanisms specified by the Trusted Computing Group. Junos OS Evolved also supports other security features such as TPM infrastructure, hardened secure BIOS, and secure boot. Security is a core design principle for Junos OS Evolved. Juniper Networks is committed to maintaining a strong security infrastructure to keep your network safe and protected.
• Nearly all of the CLI and user interfaces are identical to those provided in Junos OS, meaning you can pick up Junos OS Evolved with a minimal learning curve. These similarities provide simplicity and operational consistency, minimizing the effort required to implement, maintain, and customize your end-to-end solution.

Native Linux Base

Whereas Junos OS runs over an instance of the FreeBSD operating system on a specific hardware element (for example, the CPU on the Routing Engine), Junos OS Evolved runs over a native Linux system. Having Linux as a base leverages a much wider, dynamic, and active development community. The Linux system also contains multiple third-party applications and tools developed for Linux that Junos OS Evolved can integrate with minimal effort.

The Junos OS Evolved infrastructure is a horizontal software layer that decouples the application processes from the hardware on which the processes run. Effectively, this decoupling creates a general-purpose software infrastructure spanning all the different compute resources on the system (Routing Engine CPUs, line card CPUs, and possibly others). Application processes (protocols, services, and so on) run on top of this infrastructure and communicate with each other by publishing and consuming (that is, subscribing to) state.