SONiC OS: Is the OpenConfig provider currently supported?

[garzdin-stackit]

Is the openconfig provider currently supported? I have the command line argument set to --provider=openconfig and when I deploy a Device resource with a secretRef to the credentials I'm getting:

2026-04-03T09:33:01.405Z    ERROR    Reconciler error    {"controller": "device", "controllerGroup": "networking.metal.ironcore.dev", "controllerKind": "Device", "Device": {"name":"leaf1","namespace":"network-operator-system"}, "namespace": "network-operator-system", "name": "leaf1", "reconcileID": "a81fa634-2e46-4bad-97c8-3cf480f53e32", "error": "provider does not implement DeviceProvider interface"} 

apiVersion: networking.metal.ironcore.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Device
metadata:
  name: leaf1
  namespace: network-operator-system
spec:
  endpoint:
    address: <ip>:<port>
    secretRef:
      name: secret-basic-auth

I do have the gNMI service on the SONiC switch running and can communicate to it with through gnmic.

[felix-kaestner]

Hey @garzdin-stackit, there was a regression when it comes to the openconfig implementation that made unusable, which should be fixed by #364. However, please be aware that the openconfig provider implementation is fairly limited and only covers Interface resources to a small portion. We have started working on #261 to bring more visibility into the coverage of different provider implementations, which should make this more clear for the future.

Thanks a lot for trying out this project! Your feedback is highly appreciated.

[felix-kaestner]

@garzdin-stackit Please feel free to re-open if you are still facing issues.