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Introduction
This document contains instructions for installing and configuring Contrail plugin for Fuel.
Key terms, acronyms and abbreviations
| Juniper Contrail | Contrail Cloud Platform is a foundational element of Juniper's open cloud networking and NFV solutions. |
| SDN | Software defined network |
| RESTful API | Representational state transfer application programming interface |
| IDS | Intrusion detection system |
| DPI | Deep packet inspection |
| VIP | virtual IP address |
| BGP | Border gateway protocol |
| AS | Autonomous system |
| Contrail vRouter | Contrail vRouter is part of the compute node, which gets reachability information from the control plane and ensures native L3 services for host-based virtual machines. |
| MOS | Mirantis OpenStack |
| TOR | Top of rack |
| TSN | TOR Services Node |
Overview
Contrail plugin for Fuel adds Contrail SDN to Mirantis OpenStack as a networking back end option using Fuel web UI in a user-friendly manner. Juniper Networks Contrail is an open software defined networking solution that automates and orchestrates the creation of highly scalable virtual networks.
Contrail features:
- Powerful API calls (REST or direct python class calls)
- Analytics engine: traffic flow reports, statistics
- Network management at 2-4 OSI layers
- Service chaining architecture: you can transparently pass traffic through service instances such as IDS, firewalls, and DPI.
- Fine grained virtual network access policy control