Update (01/05/2015) : Since this blog was last published, there has been an update in the process for Installing OpenContrail. For the latest instructions check: https://github.com/juniper/contrail-installer 1. Introduction OpenStack is a…
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Every element of the layered, horizontally scalable OpenContrail system has operational state to report. It’s important to present this operation state to the user with the right abstractions that make…
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Here are couple of handy links to be used during OpenContrail Hands-on Sessions OpenContrail – Service Insertion Hands-on https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/contrail-hands-on Establish a VPN connection to Openlab in order to access the…
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Quickly setup a virtual environment on top of OpenContrail/OpenStack (This script is not used to install OpenContrail ! – It installs a virtual environment on top of OpenContrail) In order…
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Based on the overwhelming momentum of the OpenContrail project and community since its launch in September 2013, we are pleased to be taking the next step to evolve the governance…
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1 Basic Concepts In this paper we discuss the concept of load balancing in a service chain which has multiple virtual machines for scale-out. Figure 1 introduces the concepts of…
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Apache CloudStack is an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform that enables orchestration and management of compute, storage and network resources for public, private or hybrid clouds. Read more...
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Docker is a tool that simplifies the process of building container images. One of the issues with OpenStack is that building glance images is an off-line process. It is often difficult…
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Linux namespaces and OpenContrail can be combined to create application specific networks where a specific process on a Linux host can be associated with a virtual-network. Read more...
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A very creative use of BGP L3VPN technology is the use of multiple routing table topologies in order to select the egress point for different types of traffic by service…
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