FWIW, I had an absolutely terrible time setting up sonic on an edgecore switch which was "supported".
Everything was a battle. The configuration is very finicky and not well documented, and every time I went to edgecore or sonic for support, they would blame the other party.
We did eventually get everything working, but it took hours of tinkering on the configuration. There's all sorts of undocumented magic about how ports, interfaces, lanes, etc all have to line up with each other. If it doesn't like how you've configured BGP, it will silently fail and refuse to link. And God help you if you have breakout cables. And for some reason, all the services are run in docker containers, which makes it even more painful to debug. Reapplying configurations is slow and buggy in itself, so you have to reboot the switch constantly.
Ultimately I find sonic hard to recommend. Yes it's free, but I'm really not sure that's a benefit. Any home enthusiast will buy a consumer grade switch with an OS preinstalled, or use OpenWRT. Any business using this for production would be wise to go with a stable product with good support, like Cumulus. As much as I hate how Cisco does business, at least their products will mostly work how you need out of the box.
Everything was a battle. The configuration is very finicky and not well documented, and every time I went to edgecore or sonic for support, they would blame the other party.
We did eventually get everything working, but it took hours of tinkering on the configuration. There's all sorts of undocumented magic about how ports, interfaces, lanes, etc all have to line up with each other. If it doesn't like how you've configured BGP, it will silently fail and refuse to link. And God help you if you have breakout cables. And for some reason, all the services are run in docker containers, which makes it even more painful to debug. Reapplying configurations is slow and buggy in itself, so you have to reboot the switch constantly.
Ultimately I find sonic hard to recommend. Yes it's free, but I'm really not sure that's a benefit. Any home enthusiast will buy a consumer grade switch with an OS preinstalled, or use OpenWRT. Any business using this for production would be wise to go with a stable product with good support, like Cumulus. As much as I hate how Cisco does business, at least their products will mostly work how you need out of the box.