This two-day course is designed to provide students with the knowledge required to work with the Juniper Contrail software-defined networking (SDN) solution. Students will gain in-depth knowledge of how to use the OpenStack and Contrail Web UIs. Through demonstrations and hands-on labs, students will gain experience with the features of Contrail. This course is based on Contrail Release 1.03.
Audience: This course benefits individuals responsible for working with software-defined networking solutions in data center, service provider and enterprise network environments.
Course Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites:
We recommend students attend Introduction to the Junos Operating System (IJOS) prior to attending this course, as well as possess the following:
- Basic TCP/IP skills
- A general understanding of data center virtualization
- A basic understanding of the Junos operating system
Course Objectives:
After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:
- Define basic SDN principles and functionality
- Define basic OpenStack principles and functionality
- Define basic Contrail principles and how they relate to OpenStack
- List and define the components that make up the Contrail solution
- Describe the functionality of the Contrail control and data planes
- Describe the two installation types: ISO and RPM
- Perform an ISO-based install
- Run setup scripts, create and modify a testbed file, and provision a multi-node Contrail cluster using fab scripts
- Gain an understanding of the OpenStack and Contrail WebUIs
- Create a tenant project
- Create and manage virtual networks
- Create and manage policies
- Create and assign floating IP addresses
- Add an image and launch an instance from it
- Describe how a tenant is created internally
- Describe service chaining within Contrail
- Set up a service chain
- Manipulate the WebUI monitoring section
- Extract key information regarding the Contrail infrastructure
- Extract key information regarding traffic flows and packet analysis
- Create various types of filters and queries to generate data
Course Outline:
- Course Introduction
- Contrail Overview
- SDN Overview
- Contrail Overview
- Architecture and Installation
- Contrail Components and Building Blocks
- Contrail Stack
- Pre-Installation and Roles
- Base Image Installation
- System and Role-Based Setup
- Lab: Multiserver Installation
- Basic Configuration
- Tenant Creation Walkthrough
- Creating and Managing Projects
- Creating and Managing Virtual Networks
- Image Management in OpenStack
- Implementing Floating IPs
- Lab: Basic Tenant Implementation and Management
- Service Chaining
- Service Chaining Overview
- In-Network Service Chain and Configuration
- Transparent Service Chain and Configuration
- Lab: Service Chains
- Contrail Analytics
- Monitor > Infrastructure Workspace
- Monitor > Networking Workspace
- Analyzing Live Traffic
- Flow Queries and Logs
- Troubleshooting
- Contrail CLI Commands
- Fabric Utility Scripts
- OpenStack CLI Usage
- Lab: Performing Analysis and Troubleshooting in Contrail
- Appendix A: APIs in Contrail
- Functions of APIs in Contrail
- API Usage Example