In a previous blog posting titled “Debugging and System Visibility in a SDN Environment”, OpenContrail Software Engineer and my colleague, Anish Mehta, gave an overview of the challenges and opportunities…
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The first OpenContrail development IRC meeting was held today on the freenode.net #opencontrail IRC channel. This is a recurring meeting that will be held every Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (9…
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This blog post details how one can use their existing Amazon VPC/EC2 APIs and move to an Openstack/OpenContrail cluster. With support for handling of Amazon APIs, users can now reuse…
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Mixi is Japanese SNS provider. Recently, Junpei Yoshino, an applications operations engineer at Mixi, wrote a blog about his thoughts on OpenContrail. The direct blog is posted at http://alpha.mixi.co.jp/2013/12038/, but…
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OpenContrail consists of two parts. One part is the virtual router (vRouter) which sits in the hypervisor of virtualized servers. The other part is a logically centralized SDN controller which…
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The following presentation was given by Takashi Sogabe, software engineer at Internet Initiative Japan, at an OpenStack Meetup in November. Sogabe-san explored his testing of OpenStack and OpenContrail. His slides…
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The benefits of SDN, and the advantages of cloud computing have been well documented. However, when moving to this new distributed environment, there better be a way to have clear…
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This blog post will provide a step-by-step guide to configuring a dynamic in-network service chain. As emphasized in prior blog postings on OpenContrail.org, using well known and defined standards allows…
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Technologies used to virtualize cloud networks are evolving quickly. Many times it is non-trivial to sort out the different technologies and understand merits and demerits of specific approaches. This write-up…
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Why BGP/MPLS VPN (aka 2547 VPNs) control plane? To answer this question, let me start by quoting from the blog posted by Pedro Marques: "When we started working on network…
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