ASPATH Project

# Changelog

# May 14, 2021

  • Guide page has been added to the website.
  • A fully working PCH Daily Routing Snapshot grabber, parser and ingester has been tested and should be available on develop branch on the following days.
  • A Discord serveropen in new window has been created to be in contact with people that wants to contribute or need help deploying an early version of the software.
  • Thanks everyone for the interest in the project. You can watch again the LACNIC 35 ASPATH presentationopen in new window on Youtube.
  • If you want to collaborate on this project and don't know where to start, you can check the new Contributors Wanted page.

# May 9, 2021

  • Groundwork for grabber modules: route collector entries in database will also have a 'driver' and 'driver_opts' column to be able to execute the corresponding procedure to grab and parse new snapshots.
  • PCH Daily Routing Snapshots will be the first driver to be implemented (WIP). An scraper module will grab new datasets from https://www.pch.net/resources/Routing_Data/IPv4_daily_snapshots/ and Quagga/Cisco parser will process and add the routing snapshots to database.

# May 8, 2021

  • Frontend: Implemented snapshot browsing capability. Now it's possible to quickly search and look any routing snapshot from the same route collector.
  • API: Snapshot metadata is now included in snapshots/:id/routes, including snapshot ID and creation date.

# Apr 16, 2021

  • Backend API development is now public. Python FastAPI, Celery and Masonite ORM are the main technologies being used for this module.
  • ASPATH code repository is now a monorepo and it's available on ASPATH project github pageopen in new window. Code will be maintained in develop branch until an stable version is released.
  • Implemented easy deployment using docker-compose. Now it's possible to start the software by cloning the main repository and using docker-compose up command.
  • Docker-compose deployment is configured with a portable data folder. This folder will contain every file related to postgres database and redis instance to make it easier to backup or move to another machine.

# Mar 25, 2021