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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

The Nuage VSP multicast support


The Nuage VSP Platform has the ability to route multicast between the following Nuage VSD entities:

  • Layer 2 and 3 domains

  • Zones

  • Subnets

  • VPorts attached to VMs

Multicast can be routed into the overlay network, which is a unique feature of the Nuage VSP platform. Multicast traffic is routed into the overlay network in Nuage by configuring dedicated VLANs on the underlay layer 2 network, which are attached to compute nodes. This allows the compute (hypervisors) on the underlay network to use the dedicated VLANs, which are ip'd on a per rack basis, to transmit and receive multicast traffic.

To route multicast traffic across the underlay, the Nuage VRS will duplicate the multicast packets and leak it into the overlay network in a controlled fashion. This is so the overlay network is not flooded with unnecessary multicast traffic, which can cause performance implications to the overlay network if it was not controlled. This makes the Nuage multicast setup highly scalable...