Nornir is one of the most trusted automation frameworks in networking. It's staying open source, community-led, and free to use. OpsMill is here to steward it, fund it, and keep it healthy for the people who depend on it every day.
Nornir keeps its license, its repos, and its independence. Nothing about how you use it today changes.
The roadmap stays in the open. OpsMill adds resources.
Engineering time, infrastructure, and release support behind a project the community built.
Same license, same public repositories.
OpsMill is committing engineering time to maintain Nornir and support the community that has carried it.
Infrahub is an option that fits naturally, never a requirement.
Better release cadence, and infrastructure support, with progress visible to the whole community.
Infrahub manages the infrastructure intent data, which defines what the network should be. Nornir handles the Executor, the engine that deploys those changes to the network.
Infrahub is the intent engine. It models the network, versions every change, and validates intent before anything ships to a device.
Nornir is the execution engine. It writes changes to thousands of devices in parallel, in plain Python, across every vendor in your estate.
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Nornir stays open source under the same Apache 2 license it has today. The code stays in its public repositories, and anyone who uses Nornir today can keep using it the exact same way, for free, forever.
Your plugins, installs, scripts, pipelines, all of it keeps working. There is no migration, no account to create, no new dependency. Nothing about how you install or run Nornir changes on day one.
They sit in different parts of the network automation stack and do different jobs. Infrahub manages the infrastructure intent data – defines what the network should be. Nornir is the execution engine, it deploys those changes to the network.
If you’ve already standardized on Nornir, this is good news. A framework you already rely on now has funding, engineering support, and a company committed to its long-term health. You can use Nornir entirely on its own, with whatever data sources and tools you already have. There is no requirement to adopt Infrahub, and there never will be.
If you are already using Infrahub, there’s a Nornir plugin you can use.
Existing Nornir community channels will stay active, and that’s where you’ll hear more updates from us regarding our investments and support.
GitHub, Discord and the Network to Code #nornir Slack Channel
A complete network automation practice needs a trustworthy source of truth and a reliable way to act on it. With Infrahub and Nornir, OpsMill can support both ends of that workflow. For teams building a modern automation stack, this means fewer moving parts to stitch together and a clearer path from intent to execution.
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