- Update requirements.in

- Moved pre-load of drivers after start of gRPC server. Otherwise, K8s kills the component when retrieval of devices takes long time.

- Added Delta Sample calculation
- Improved timestamp reporting

- Added minor tests for gNMI and NetConf

- First functional version of gNMI driver able to configure
- Telemetry is work in progress

1) Bug fixes
2) L2VPN CLI configuration support for CISCO devices
3) Improved creation of services in WebUI

- Extracted gNMI code (will be added to new driver)

- Moved gNMI code to new driver

2) Support to choose between "Jinja" and "pyangbind".
3) WebUI modification for creating services
4) Changes in ConfigRules multivendor to adapt to new features

- Added support for emulated devices to inform the context/topology their endpoints belong to.
- Enhanced Emulated Driver EndPoint compositor

- Added logic to auto-enable devices when Automation component is not deployed
- Updated retrieval of device controller

- Updated wait loop time

- Minor code cleanup before merging

- Updated detailed metrics for RPC methods (to be completed)

- Add driver name attribute to drivers
- Improve instantiation of per-driver MetricsPool
- Added detailed metrics for AddDevice RPC method

2) Support for ACL rules on L2VPN and L3VPN
3)Display ACL rules in WebUI

- Cosmetic changes

- Instrumented ConfigureDevice method

- Removed hardcoded histogram buckets

- Removed hardcoded histogram buckets

- Updated get_device calls according to new Common.Tools.ContextQueries methods

- Removed endpoints when running SetDevice method in ConfigureDevice for performance enhancement.

- Pre-merge code cleanup