A single 17 MB binary that talks straight to EOS eAPI. No agent on the switch, no cloud account, no licence. Point it at your switch and go.
You SSH, you type enable, you type configure,
you cross your fingers, you remember write memory — or you don't.
There's no visual log of what changed. There's no quick view of who's on which VLAN.
There's no easy way to give a junior teammate read-only access without inventing AAA roles.
Every routine task is four perfectly-ordered commands. Forget one, redo the change.
Counters are a show interfaces counters | grep loop and an Excel sheet.
AAA + privilege levels are heavier than the value they unlock. So you don't share.
StarkRista is a single, self-contained web app. It talks to your switch over the standard EOS eAPI — the same JSON-RPC interface Arista has shipped since EOS 4.12. No agent on the switch. No external database. No SaaS dependency. Run it on a laptop, a jump host, or a Raspberry Pi.
Every feature was built because someone asked for it on a Friday afternoon and didn't want to wait until Monday. The full list lives on the features page.
StarkRista isn't trying to replace CloudVision for fleet-scale data centers. It's the tool we wished we had for the other 90% of Arista deployments.
| EOS CLI | CloudVision Portal | StarkRista | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | ● SSH access |
✕ Days |
✓ < 2 minutes |
| Cost | ✓ Free |
✕ Per-device licence |
✓ Free, self-hosted |
| Hardware footprint | ✓ None |
✕ Server cluster |
✓ 17 MB binary |
| Multi-switch fleet | ✕ — |
✓ Yes |
● Single (today) |
| Role-based access | ● AAA configuration |
✓ Built-in |
✓ Built-in, 2 roles |
| Config backups | ✕ Manual |
✓ Yes |
✓ Built-in + diff |
| Open / scriptable | ✓ Yes |
● Limited |
✓ Open HTTP API |
| Best for | CLI experts |
Large data centers |
Teams of 1–20 switches |
terminal length 0 even did.Everything on this page is open-core. Run it where you want. We collect nothing.
Everything you see on this page. Run it on a laptop, a jump host, or a Raspberry Pi.
Managed hosting and a single cross-switch view, with alerts and history.
For teams that need AD/LDAP, audit logs, multi-tenant, and an SLA.
For most teams running fewer than ~50 switches, yes. For large data centers running streaming telemetry and fleet-wide configlets, no — keep CloudVision. StarkRista happily runs alongside it.
Any Arista switch running EOS 4.20 or newer with eAPI enabled. Tested on campus (720XP) and data-center (7280SR) platforms. If you're not sure, run show management api http-commands on the switch.
No. There is no outbound call to any Stark server. Your config, your data, your network — all stays local. The network footprint is exactly two TCP connections: your browser to StarkRista, and StarkRista to your switch.
Open-core. The repo will be public at launch. Audit it, fork it, vendor it.
Multi-switch fleet view, alerting integrations (PagerDuty / Slack), and audit log are on the roadmap. SSO and AD/LDAP are Enterprise. Multi-vendor is by design never — StarkRista is Arista-only.
curl to dashboard.No agent, no cloud, no licence. Download the binary, point it at your switch's eAPI, and start clicking.