# Nmstate: A Declarative Network API

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A declarative network management API for hosts.

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Nmstate is a library with an accompanying command line tool that manages
host networking settings in a declarative manner.
The networking state is described by a pre-defined schema.
Reporting of current state and changes to it (desired state) both conform to
the schema.

Nmstate is aimed to satisfy enterprise needs to manage host networking through
a northbound declarative API and multi provider support on the southbound.
NetworkManager acts as the main (and currently the only) provider supported.

Nmstate provides:
 * Rust crate -- [nmstate](https://crates.io/crates/nmstate)
 * Command line tools -- `cargo install nmstatectl`
 * Python library -- `libnmstate`
 * Go binding
 * C binding

More document could be found at [nmstate.io](https://nmstate.io)

## State example:

Desired/Current state example (YAML):
```yaml
---
dns:
  config:
    server:
      - 192.0.2.1
    search:
      - example.org
routes:
  config:
    - destination: 0.0.0.0/0
      next-hop-interface: eth1
      next-hop-address: 192.0.2.1
interfaces:
  - name: eth1
    type: ethernet
    description: Main-NIC
    state: up
    ipv4:
      enabled: true
      dhcp: false
      address:
        - ip: 192.0.2.9
          prefix-length: 24
    ipv6:
      enabled: false
```

## Contact

*Nmstate* [GitHub Issues pages][github_issue_url] for discussion.

You may find us in `#nmstate` on [Libera IRC](https://libera.chat/) also.

## Contributing

Yay! We are happy to accept new contributors to the Nmstate project. Please
follow these [instructions](CONTRIBUTING.md) to contribute.

## Installation

For Fedora 29+, `sudo dnf install nmstate`.

For other distribution, please see the [install guide](https://nmstate.io/user/install.html).

## Documentation

* [libnmstate API](https://nmstate.github.io/devel/api.html)
* [Code examples](https://nmstate.github.io/devel/py_example.html)
* [State examples](https://nmstate.github.io/examples.html)
* [nmstatectl user guide](https://nmstate.github.io/cli_guide.html)
* nmstatectl man page: `man nmstatectl`

## Changelog

Please refer to [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG)

[mailing_list]: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/admin/lists/nmstate-devel.lists.fedorahosted.org
[github_issue_url]: https://github.com/nmstate/nmstate/issues
