grout with frr support

[Robin Jarry]

Hey Christoph,

Christoph, May 19, 2026 at 18:41:
> I installed CentOS Stream to work around the Debian frr issue,
> but it comes with frr 10.4.1
>
> dnf info frr
> Available Packages
> Name         : frr
> Version      : 10.4.1
> Release      : 2.el10

That is too old and it won't be compatible with the grout plugin.

> Should I install frr from https://rpm.frrouting.org instead?
>
> Name         : frr
> Version      : 10.6.1
> Release      : 01.el10
> Repository   : frr
>
> dnf info grout
> Installed Packages
> Name         : grout
> Version      : 0.14.2
> Release      : 1.el10_2
>
> What is the best option to get a working grout + frr system
> without self compilation that gets upstream grout releases fairly 
> quickly (weeks not months or years) and has a longer support lifetime 
> than Fedora?
> Are there plans for an upstream grout/frr rpm/deb repo?

So far, your best bet is to use the container image we provide which
includes grout, frr (10.5.3) and the grout dplane plugin, all-in-one:

	https://quay.io/repository/grout/grout

Mind, that running DPDK applications in containers requires some
tweaking. I recommend that excellent talk from the DPDK summit last week
by Andrea:

https://dpdksummit2026.sched.com/event/2JSER/running-a-high-performance-dpdk-based-router-on-kubernetes-andrea-panattoni-red-hat

Have a look at the examples I pushed here for more info:

https://github.com/DPDK/grout/tree/main/docs/quadlets

Alternatively, if you run with centos-stream, you can use the grout and
frr RPM packages that we build:

https://github.com/DPDK/grout/releases/download/edge/frr.x86_64.rpm
https://github.com/DPDK/grout/releases/download/edge/grout.x86_64.rpm
https://github.com/DPDK/grout/releases/download/edge/grout-frr.x86_64.rpm

But keep in mind that this will override the Centos frr (10.4.1) package.

Let me know if this helps.

-- 
Robin

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