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Distributed Dragonflow
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Dragonflow is a distributed SDN controller for OpenStack® Neutron™
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supporting distributed Switching, Routing, DHCP and more.
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Our project mission is to Implement advanced networking services in a
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manner that is efficient, elegant and simple.
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Designed to support large scale deployments with focus on latency and
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performance.
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Designed to introduce advanced innovative services locally on each compute
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node, and with containers deployment in mind.
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Dragonflow is a full Neutron implementation that is done the SDN way, our
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motivation for creating yet another Neutron implementation:
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1) We wanted to create an SDN implementation that is integral part of
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OpenStack, meaning both the plugin and the implementation are
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fully under OpenStack project and governance.
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2) Dragonflow is fully open source and we welcome new contributors
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and partners to share a mutual vision.
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3) We wanted Dragonflow to be VERY lightweight and simple in terms
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of size and code complexity, we want the entry point for new
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users/contributors to be very simple and fast.
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4) Dragonflow is designed to support peformance intensive environments
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where latency is a big deal.
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5) Dragonflow should be easily extensible
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6) We believe in a distributed control plane
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Key Design Guidelines
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1) DB plug-ability, Determines scalability, lookup performance and latency
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2) Synchronization of policy-level/topology abstraction to the Compute Node
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3) Support reactiveness in the local DF controller, in cases it make sense
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4) Loadable Network Services Framework
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High Level Architecture
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.. _Distributed Dragonflow Section: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/dragonflow/distributed_dragonflow.html
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.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openstack/dragonflow/master/doc/images/dragonflow_distributed_architecture.png
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:alt: Solution Overview
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:width: 600
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:height: 525
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:align: center
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Dragonflow environment consist of a local controller running at each of the
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compute nodes in the setup.
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These controllers all sync the network topology and policy using a pluggable
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DB solution.
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The controllers then map the policy into OpenFlow flows using the local
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Dragonflow applications that communicate with the local OpenVSwitch.
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The DB is being populated by Dragonflow Neutron plugin that converts neutron
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API to our model.
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The following sections each describe a specific topic/functionality in Dragonflow
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Dragonflow Supported Features
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Dragonflow Pipeline
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Dragonflow Pluggable DB
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Distributed DHCP Application
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Containers and Dragonflow
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Dragonflow Roadmap
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The following topics are areas we are examining for future features and
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roadmap into Dragonflow project
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- Containers
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- Distributed SNAT/DNAT
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- Reactive DB
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- Topology Service Injection / Service Chaining
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- Smart NICs
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- Hierarchical Port Binding (SDN ToR)
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- Inter Cloud Connectivity (Boarder Gateway / L2GW)
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- Fault Detection
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