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DevOps for Networking

By : Steven Armstrong
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DevOps for Networking

By: Steven Armstrong

Overview of this book

Frustrated that your company’s network changes are still a manual set of activities that slow developers down? It doesn’t need to be that way any longer, as this book will help your company and network teams embrace DevOps and continuous delivery approaches, enabling them to automate all network functions. This book aims to show readers network automation processes they could implement in their organizations. It will teach you the fundamentals of DevOps in networking and how to improve DevOps processes and workflows by providing automation in your network. You will be exposed to various networking strategies that are stopping your organization from scaling new projects quickly. You will see how SDN and APIs are influencing DevOps transformations, which will in turn help you improve the scalability and efficiency of your organizations networks operations. You will also find out how to leverage various configuration management tools such as Ansible, to automate your network. The book will also look at containers and the impact they are having on networking as well as looking at how automation impacts network security in a software-defined network.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
DevOps for Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How the Nuage SDN solution works


One of the market-leading SDN solutions is the Nuage SDN (VSP) platform, which is Nokia's SDN solution (formerly Alcatel Lucent), so we will explore how this market-leading SDN solution works.

The Nuage VSP platform comprises three main components—the VSD, VSC, and VRS.

  • Virtualized Service Directory (VSD): This is the policy engine for the overall platform, and it provides a graphical user interface and exposes a restful API for network engineers to use and interact with network functions.

  • Virtualized Service Controller (VSC): This is the SDN controller for Nuage, and it uses OpenFlow and OVSDB management protocol to distribute switching and routing information to hypervisors, bare metal servers, or containers.

  • Virtual Routing and Switching (VRS): This is Nuage's customized version of Open vSwitch, which is installed on compute nodes (hypervisors).

The Nuage VSP can integrate with OpenStack, CloudStack, and VMWare private cloud platforms or public cloud solutions...