OpenStack: Networking Roadmap, Collaboration and Contribution

Dis-agregration is real… This trend started with SDN and the separation of Data plane and Control plane. The scope has expanded to include separate of hardware and software and created a whole new industry of white boxes, general purpose X86 commodity hardware. All three markets - Cloud, Enterprise and Carriers are now engaged in various solutions inside the Data Center. The disaggregation is impacted all parts of the network including Access and Edge layers.

OpenDaylight is the most widely deployed open source SDN controller. Discover why providers are choosing open source and OpenDaylight and where you can use OpenDaylight in your network.

Ildikó Váncsa, Chris Price, and Carsten Rossenhövel's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit. Communications service providers (CSPs) have a wide range of options when building virtualized services from the ground up including multiple choices for each functional block in the ETSI NFV reference architecture. CSPs prefer heterogeneous systems with building blocks from different vendors including open source software; for such deployments interoperability becomes a crucial requirement. OpenStack, as the NFVI and VIM, serves as a widely used cloud platform for telecom and NFV use cases. As a common base, OpenStack offers the means for vendors and other open source projects to ease the interoperability challenge by providing a set of open API’s while focusing on upgradeability and backward compatibility. However, when it comes to productization, interoperability testing often falls short and is sometimes left to the carrier as shown by the testing programs actively run by no fewer than 10 organizations today. Join Carsten Rossenhövel from the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) and the rapporteur (editor) of ETSI’s NFV interoperability standards, Ildikó Váncsa from the OpenStack Foundation, and Chris Price, Ericsson and OpenStack board director to learn more about The ETSI NFV Release 2 interoperability testing activities - standardization and recently completed ETSI PlugTest. Over 40 commercial and open source implementations were tested for interoperability, including 20 virtual network functions, 10 management and orchestration solutions and 10 NFV platforms. The New IP Agency (NIA) interoperability testing campaigns of commercial NFV implementations executed by EANTC, focusing on results, lessons learned and recommendations. How vendors and open source projects are stepping up to the challenge, realizing they must work together. How to stay up-to-date with OpenStack releases and the community. How to get involved to ensure you are aware of the latest developments and contribute what you need to OpenStack. What will I learn from attending this session? CSPs, open source projects and vendors alike will learn more about the recent ETSI PlugTest and NIA-commissioned interoperability testing, their results and how to architect full NFV solutions that will work together. Interoperability API tests and associated marks from OpenStack will be covered, as well as features to help stay current on OpenStack releases. Attendees will also hear from Ericsson about a vendor’s point of view, and how other projects such a OPNFV are evolving and expanding in scope to address this challenge.

In this talk, we will discuss how L4-L7 devices can integrate in various SDN architectures, discuss benefits and some of the challenges that such integration represents. We will also talk about how SDN and NFV relate, and what are the different challenges to successfully deploy L4-L7 devices as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) or provide such services to the NFV Infrastructure (VIM). Bio Youcef Laribi is a Principal Architect in the Delivery Networks BU at Citrix. He is responsible for driving the integration projects of the NetScaler ADC product with several Cloud, SDN and Automation environments including OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware NSX and Cisco ACI. He is also the Citrix representative on the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee. His background is mainly in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, and he worked on several middleware technologies from DCE and CORBA in the early days, to J2EE and .NET to SOA and micro-services today. Youcef speaks 4 languages and holds a PhD and an MSc in Computer Science from the French INPG Institute in Grenoble, France.

The document discusses an ONOS-based virtual tenant network (VTN) implementation. It provides an overview of the architecture, including that ONOS uses a distributed architecture to provide high availability, scalability, and performance. It also allows for linear scalability. The VTN architecture runs on top of ONOS and uses Neutron and OpenStack for management of virtual networks and tenants. It allows for VTN management and scalability, high availability, and live migration of VM hosts.

The document discusses the role of OPNFV in developing open source platforms for 5G networks. Key points include: - OPNFV aims to deliver an integrated open source platform to support NFV and cloud-native architectures for 5G networks, focusing on features like network slicing and low latency. - It works with upstream communities to integrate components like OpenStack and aims to provide a reference platform for operators and vendors. - Huawei discusses its role and contributions to OPNFV, including leading projects, code commits, and staff. It also demonstrates solutions built on the OPNFV platform.

The document provides an overview of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), which is an open source platform for automating virtual network functions (VNFs). ONAP was derived from AT&T's ECOMP platform and can design, create, orchestrate, monitor, and manage the lifecycles of VNFs, SDNs containing VNFs, and higher-level services combining these components. It also discusses network function virtualization (NFV) basics, global traffic trends, proprietary equipment issues, declining revenues, and the call for more agile and flexible software-based networks. Finally, it summarizes ONAP's architecture, including its design time and run time frameworks, and provides a use case

An introduction to the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) a new Linux Foundation Project for SDN/NFV, as presented to the OpenStack St Louis Meetup on June 20, 2017

In this talk, Principal architects will share considerations in designing virtual infrastructure to deliver vCPE and vPE based services. The speakers will provide some background on service function chaining, service edge routing, Openstack clouds and discuss virtualized architectures that can solve Service Provider problems to achieve agility and richness of cloud based services

1) The document discusses China Mobile's future network vision called NovoNet and ONAP's vision and perspective from operators. 2) NovoNet envisions reconstructing network infrastructure, functions, and operations through technologies like NFV, SDN, and network slicing. 3) ONAP aims to be the global automation platform for network, infrastructure, and services across industries through open source components and reducing manual processes in virtualized environments like 5G. 4) The document provides details on NovoNet and ONAP goals to transform networks through virtualization, centralization, programmability, and automation.

This document discusses Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). It provides a brief history of SDN including its origins at Stanford University and the development of the OpenFlow protocol. It also outlines the SDN architecture including abstraction layers, control programs, network operating systems, and switches. Key frameworks like OpenDaylight and controllers like Floodlight are mentioned. NFV is defined as implementing network functions in software rather than proprietary hardware to leverage standard servers and virtualization.

The Open Dataplane (ODP) provides a platform-independent API and framework for packet processing applications. Especially, it enables applications to use the special packet processing capabilities of system-on-chips without being tied to a specific hardware implementation. This makes ODP a key ingredient in the OPNFV projects that are focusing on Dataplane Acceleration (DPACC) and OPNFV on ARM. This talk will introduce the Open Dataplane project with examples, and why it is important in Network Function Virtualization use cases.

This document discusses ElasticISP, a concept for running an ISP on virtualized network functions in the cloud. The key points are: 1. ElasticISP aims to make it cheaper and faster to start an ISP by eliminating the need for physical networking hardware and deploying all functions like routing, firewalls, and LNS virtually in the cloud. 2. This allows an ISP to start for around $15k with minimal capital expenditure, and to easily scale network capacity and functions by adding more virtual instances as needed. 3. The document reviews ElasticISP concepts and architectures, including examples of logical and physical network designs using virtual routers, firewalls, and other functions deployed in public

Synopsis In this Tech Talk, Louis Fourie will do deep dive into one of the key technology enablers -- service function chaining and describe extensions to OpenStack networking (Neutron) for service chaining, including use cases, architecture and implementation. About Louis Fourie Louis Fourie is currently a senior staff engineer working on network virtualization, cloud services, and SDN technologies at Huawei Technology, USA. Louis is an active contributor to the service chaining work in several organizations including OpenStack, ONF, ETSI NFV, IETF, and OPNFV. Louis previously worked at Cisco on several computer networking, voice and data communications products, and is the holder of several patents.

This document summarizes Guru Parulkar's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit. The presentation discusses the journey of SDN/NFV from disaggregation and open source software to production deployment. It notes that while network operators want to adopt open solutions, they lack development resources and investment. Vendors and system integrators also see opportunities but lack expertise and investment. To succeed in taking disaggregation and open source to production requires aligning incentives to drive sufficient investments.

While little discussed, there is a solid case in placing some VNFs at the edge of the network, but this notion implies a distributed model that VNFs were not originally created to address. One of the problems in placing VNFs at the network edge is that the edge equipment may be very cost sensitive and in many cases, consumer grade. These consumer-grade devices cannot support a virtual container such as a KVM because of the huge memory requirements of an additional OS. A Docker container has been proposed and implemented with great success.

This document discusses securing microservices in CloudFoundry. It begins by noting the need for microsegmentation as applications move to the cloud and become more elastic. Traditionally defining firewall rules by IP address becomes unmanageable in this environment. The document then proposes defining policies based on application roles and grouping endpoints into policy-defined segments. It provides examples of defining policies by application groups rather than individual IP addresses, avoiding state explosion. This group-based policy approach allows for secure, scalable and intent-based policy definition.

A session in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live, Berlin. OpenStack is well established as the public/private cloud platform, abstracting compute, storage, and networking resources behind a unified set of APIs. OpenStack Neutron provides the lion's share of networking resources and seems sufficient for many small private cloud deployments. As scale increases and service providers with large network footprints come into the picture, new complications arise. Service provider networks have requirements and capabilities far beyond those addressable with Neutron. Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has given rise to modular network controllers in the service provider space. OpenDaylight is the open source world’s answer, and service providers want to be able to marry OpenStack orchestration with OpenDaylight networking, as evident by the Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization project (OPNFV). Come learn how SDN controllers fit in this context vs. OpenStack with neutron drivers, when to use one when to use the other, and the benefits and functionality of each.

This was a presentation I gave at the Open Networking Users Group (ONUG), Spring 2014. This talk covers some background on OpenStack and OpenDaylight, walks through Group Based Policy and OpFlex, and ends with a tutorial walk through of installing and using OpenStack with OpenDaylight.

The core of CloudStack networking has always been software-defined. As the networking industry evolves to a software-defined future, CloudStack will have to evolve with it. The presentation will examine the present state of SDN in CloudStack, look at some industry directions and attempt to predict the evolution of CloudStack with those trends. Bio Chiradeep Vittal is a Distinguished Engineer in the Converged Infrastructure Group at Citrix where he has technology leadership responsibilities around Citrix Cloud Platform, Citrix Lifecycle Manager and Citrix Workspace Pod. He is also a Project Management Committee member of the Apache CloudStack Project. At cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), he was a founding engineer, often tasked with the thorny details of virtualized networking and storage. Prior to cloud.com, he worked at several Silicon Valley startups in various architectural roles. Chiradeep has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay and a M.Sc from the University of Alberta. He has spoken / presented at several conferences, including CloudStack Collab, LISA, OSCON, ONS, SDN Summit and LinuxCon. His twitter handle is @chiradeep and occasionally blogs at http://cloudierthanthou.wordpress.com

Designed for IT professionals looking to expand their OpenStack Networking knowledge, “Navigating OpenStack Networking” is a comprehensive and fast-paced session which provides an overview of OpenStack Networking, its history, its predecessor (Nova Networks), its components and then dives deep into the architecture, its features and plugin model and its role in building an OpenStack Cloud.

OPNFV facilitates the development and evolution of NFV components across various open source ecosystems. Through system level integration, deployment and testing, OPNFV creates a reference NFV platform to accelerate the transformation of enterprise and service provider networks. The recently announced fourth release, Danube, represents a growing maturity for both the project and upstream partners and brings together elements across the stack to more quickly introduce technologies that meet the needs of operators. Tapio Tallgren, OPNFV TSC Chair, and Heather Kirksey, OPNFV Director, presented a session during ONS 2017 on how OPNFV Danube, Euphrates, and the many rivers to come are helping to build the next-generation network for NFV.

This document summarizes OpenStack networking (Neutron) and discusses its key components and architecture. It describes how Neutron provides network abstraction and virtualization through pluggable backend drivers. It also outlines some common Neutron features like security groups and highlights new capabilities in the Juno release like IPv6 support and distributed virtual routing. The document concludes by looking ahead to further networking developments in OpenStack.

OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform that consists of several components including Nova (compute), Glance (images), Keystone (identity), Neutron (networking), Swift (object storage), and Horizon (dashboard). It aims to be scalable, feature-rich, and simple to implement. OpenStack began as a collaboration between NASA and Rackspace to develop open source cloud computing software. It has since grown significantly with over 2000 companies contributing to its development and adoption.

This document discusses network as a service (NaaS) in OpenStack. It provides an overview of OpenStack, including its core projects like Nova, Swift, Glance, Keystone, and Horizon. It then describes NaaS and how two OpenStack projects, Quantum and Melange, provide NaaS functionality like software-defined networking, IP management, and network connectivity for VMs. Potential DevOps applications of NaaS in OpenStack are also outlined, such as simulating network failures for distributed systems testing in cloud environments. Finally, OpenStack community resources are highlighted.

OpenStack is an open-source cloud computing platform that manages large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter. It includes several independent services like Nova (compute), Neutron (networking), Swift (object storage), and Glance (image service). Hands-on experience with OpenStack can be gained through all-in-one installations or multi-node configurations on physical or virtual machines using various OpenStack distributions from companies like Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Mirantis. Neutron provides virtual networking and integration with technologies like Open vSwitch, namespaces, and plugins to enable multi-tenant isolation.

Presentation from OpenStack Summit Austin 2016. Video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1bWYvbUbLI

The slides give the brief idea of the current situation of the container orchestration integration in OpenStack and how OpenStack Kuryr can improve the situation.

This document discusses container orchestration integration between OpenStack Kuryr and Apache Mesos. It begins with introductions to Docker and Mesos, describing how they are used to distribute workloads across container hosts. It then reviews the history of networking in Docker and Mesos, how libnetwork was developed for Docker networking, and how Mesos uses IPAM and network isolator modules. Finally, it describes how OpenStack Kuryr acts as a translator between Neutron and libnetwork, allowing Neutron networking APIs to manage containers running on Mesos.

Presented at the CloudStack Silicon Valley User Group in September 2015 at Nuage Networks. Discussed impact of containers, emerging software defined networking platforms, NFV, IPv6 and performance.

This document summarizes a presentation about open source and open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT). It discusses the promise and challenges of the IoT, including many disjoint efforts and standards. It then describes OpenStack and OpenDaylight, two open source projects that provide platforms for cloud computing and SDN/NFV. Finally, it discusses how open source and open standards can be combined to accelerate innovation for the IoT through collaboration on efforts like oneM2M, IoT Data Broker, Time Series Data Repository, and putting the pieces together through projects like OPNFV.

Slide was presented at Dr. Dobb's Conference in Bangalore. Talks about Openstack Introduction in general Projects under Openstack. Contributing to Openstack. This was presented jointly by CB Ananth and Rahul at Dr. Dobb's Conference Bangalore on 12th Apr 2014.

DataCentred's Senior Cloud Systems Engineer, Nick Jones, talks about OpenStack - a cloud operating system.