Cloud network is the most crucial and complex piece of any private or service provider's cloud. Cloud network has to be efficient and flexible enough to handle daily changing networking needs of tenants and businesses. Software defined networking is a key pillar of providing automated and flexible networking for tenants with complete isolation and extensibilities. In this section we will learn various cloud network solution components for both private cloud and service providers' cloud in a WAP cloud.

Before getting into tenant workload networking needs, it is crucial to note that networking for cloud management infra and tenant workload infrastructure should be kept separate. Also known as Control Plane and Data Plane in networking languages, management infra networking should be kept separate in terms of provisioning and management. Demystifying the recommendation, assume a scenario where cloud network is down due to some issue with...