- play_arrow Overview
- play_arrow Understanding Contrail Controller
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- play_arrow Installing and Upgrading Contrail
- play_arrow Supported Platforms and Server Requirements
- play_arrow Installing Contrail and Provisioning Roles
- Introduction to Containerized Contrail Modules
- Introduction to Contrail Microservices Architecture
- Downloading Installation Software
- Overview of contrail-ansible-deployer used in Contrail Command for Installing Contrail with Microservices Architecture
- Installing Contrail with OpenStack and Kolla Ansible
- Configuring the Control Node with BGP
- Contrail Global Controller
- Role and Resource-Based Access Control
- play_arrow Installation and Configuration Scenarios
- Setting Up and Using a Simple Virtual Gateway with Contrail 4.0
- Configuring MD5 Authentication for BGP Sessions
- Configuring the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) Integrated with Contrail vRouter
- Configuring Contrail DPDK vRouter to Run in a Docker Container
- Configuring Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Configuring Virtual Networks for Hub-and-Spoke Topology
- Configuring Transport Layer Security-Based XMPP in Contrail
- Configuring Graceful Restart and Long-lived Graceful Restart
- Remote Compute
- Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) for vRouter
- play_arrow Upgrading Contrail Software
- play_arrow Backup and Restore Contrail Software
- play_arrow Multicloud Contrail
- play_arrow Using Contrail with Kubernetes
- Contrail Integration with Kubernetes
- Installing and Managing Contrail 5.0 Microservices Architecture Using Helm Charts
- Provisioning of Kubernetes Clusters
- Using Helm Charts to Provision Multinode Contrail OpenStack Ocata with High Availability
- Using Helm Charts to Provision All-in-One Contrail with OpenStack Ocata
- Accessing a Contrail OpenStack Helm Cluster
- Frequently Asked Questions About Contrail and Helm Charts
- Contrail Deployment with Helm
- Verifying Configuration for CNI for Kubernetes
- Kubernetes Updates to IP Fabric
- Implementation of Kubernetes Network Policy with Contrail Firewall Policy
- play_arrow Using VMware vCenter with Containerized Contrail
- vCenter Integration for Contrail Release 5.0
- vCenter Integration for Contrail Release 5.0.1
- vCenter Integration for Contrail Release 5.0.2
- Underlay Network Configuration for ContrailVM
- Using the Contrail and VMware vCenter User Interfaces to Manage the Network For Contrail Releases 5.0 and 5.0.1
- Using the Contrail and VMware vCenter User Interfaces to Manage the Network For Contrail Release 5.0.2
- Integrating Contrail Release 5.0.X with VMware vRealize Orchestrator
- Installing and Provisioning Contrail VMware vRealize Orchestrator Plugin
- play_arrow Using Contrail with Red Hat
- play_arrow Contrail and AppFormix Kolla/Ocata OpenStack Deployment
- Contrail and AppFormix Deployment Requirements
- Preparing for the Installation
- Run the Playbooks
- Accessing Contrail in AppFormix Management Infrastructure in UI
- Notes and Caveats
- Example Instances.yml for Contrail and AppFormix OpenStack Deployment
- Installing AppFormix for OpenStack
- Installing AppFormix for OpenStack in HA
- play_arrow Using Contrail with Juju Charms
- play_arrow Contrail Command
- play_arrow Extending Contrail to Physical Routers, Bare Metal Servers, Switches, and Interfaces
- Understanding Bare Metal Server Management
- Configuring High Availability for the Contrail OVSDB ToR Agent
- Using Device Manager to Manage Physical Routers
- SR-IOV VF as the Physical Interface of vRouter
- Using Gateway Mode to Support Remote Instances
- REST APIs for Extending the Contrail Cluster to Physical Routers, and Physical and Logical Interfaces
- play_arrow Contrail for Data Center Automation and Fabric Management
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- play_arrow Contrail Security
- play_arrow Contrail Security
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- play_arrow Monitoring and Troubleshooting Contrail
- play_arrow Configuring Traffic Mirroring to Monitor Network Traffic
- play_arrow Understanding Contrail Analytics
- play_arrow Configuring Contrail Analytics
- Analytics Scalability
- High Availability for Analytics
- System Log Receiver in Contrail Analytics
- Sending Flow Messages to the Contrail System Log
- Ceilometer Support in a Contrail Cloud
- User Configuration for Analytics Alarms and Log Statistics
- Alarms History
- Node Memory and CPU Information
- Role- and Resource-Based Access Control for the Contrail Analytics API
- Configuring Analytics as a Standalone Solution
- Configuring Secure Sandesh and Introspect for Contrail Analytics
- play_arrow Using Contrail Analytics to Monitor and Troubleshoot the Network
- Monitoring the System
- Debugging Processes Using the Contrail Introspect Feature
- Monitor > Infrastructure > Dashboard
- Monitor > Infrastructure > Control Nodes
- Monitor > Infrastructure > Virtual Routers
- Monitor > Infrastructure > Analytics Nodes
- Monitor > Infrastructure > Config Nodes
- Monitor > Networking
- Query > Flows
- Query > Logs
- Understanding Flow Sampling
- Example: Debugging Connectivity Using Monitoring for Troubleshooting
- play_arrow Common Support Answers
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- play_arrow Contrail Commands and APIs
- play_arrow Contrail Commands
- play_arrow Contrail Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
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Using Physical Network Functions in Contrail Service Chains
Contrail Release 3.0 and greater supports service appliance-based physical network functions devices (PNFs) in service chains, enabling the creation of service chains that include a combination of virtual network functions (VNFs) and PNFs. The PNFs are also supported with Contrail Device Manager.
PNF Service Chaining Objects
As of Contrail Release 3.0, Contrail has objects used to support PNFs in service chains, including:
service appliance (SA)—represents a single physical appliance
service appliance set (SA set)—represents a collection of functionally equivalent SAs, all running the same software with the same capabilities
A service appliance is associated with a physical router that has physical interfaces for the left, right, management, or other interfaces.
There can be more than one service appliance and associated physical router and physical interface objects representing it.
A physical appliance can host more than one service appliance through a logical system or other virtualization capability.
The service template object supports a physical network function service template (PNF-ST). The PNF-ST is associated with a service appliance set, which represents a pool of service appliances that can be used when the PNF-ST is instantiated.
Only the transparent service mode is supported for PNF-STs.
Prerequisites and Assumptions
The following are the prerequisites for implementing a service appliance with a Contrail controller.
Before the controller can use a PNF SA, the controller must be connected to a service control gateway (SCG) router, such as an MX Series router.
The Contrail Device Manager must manage the SCG router.
The PNF SA must be configured, and it must be configured to operate as an Ethernet bridge. The Contrail controller does not automatically implement PNF SA configuration.
Infrastructure interfaces (physical interfaces or aggregated Ethernet interfaces) on the SCG facing the SA must be preconfigured. The interfaces must be able to support VLAN-based units.
Layer 2 VPNs as supported by the Contrail Device Manager are only available with Juniper Networks Junos Release 14.2R4 or greater. If an earlier version of Junos is used, you must mark the virtual networks in Contrail with the forwarding mode “L3 only.”
Logical interfaces for connecting the service gateway VRFs to the customer and the Internet must be preconfigured.