Cloud Automation Using Contrail (CAC) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Day 1

Chapter 1: Course Introduction
Chapter 2: SDN and Contrail
  • Review of SDN
  • Contrail Basics Contrail Advantages, Capabilities, and Features Contrail Products and Solutions Contrail Use Cases Contrail Command
  • Lab 1: Contrail Command Walkthrough
Chapter 3: Orchestration Fundamentals
  • Orchestrator Overview
  • Kubernetes Orchestrator
  • OpenStack Orchestrator
  • Lab 2: Instantiating Virtual Workloads

Day 2

Chapter 4: Contrail Architecture Fundamentals
  • Contrail Architecture Overview
  • Contrail Management and Analytics
  • Contrail Control Plane Communications
  • Contrail Data Plane Communications
  • Basic Contrail Troubleshooting
  • Lab 3: Exploring and Troubleshooting the Contrail vRouter and SDN Controller
Chapter 5: Contrail Configuration
  • Contrail Configuration Methods
  • Configuring DNS and IPAM
  • Configuring the Metadata Service
  • Configuring Virtual Networks
  • Configuring Network Policies and Security Groups
  • Contrail Configuration API
  • Lab 4: Configuring Virtual Networks and Policies
Chapter 6: IP Fabric Automation
  • IP Fabric Review
  • Greenfield Fabric Automation
  • Brownfield Fabric Automation
  • Troubleshooting Fabric Automation
  • Lab 5: IP Fabric Automation

Day 3

Chapter 7: VM to BMS Bridging
  • VXLAN Review
  • EVPN Signaling for BMS to BMS VXLAN Forwarding
  • Contrail VM to BMS Bridging<./li>
  • Server/Instance example
  • Virtual Port Groups
  • Lab 6: VM to BMS Bridging
Chapter 8: VXLAN Routing
  • EVPN Signaling for Central Routing
  • Central Routing Example
  • EVPN Signaling for Edge Routing
  • Edge Routing Example
  • Lab 7: VXLAN Routing
Chapter 9: Data Center Interconnect
  • DCI Overview
  • DCI Options for a VXLAN Overlay using Contrail Automation
  • DCI Example using Contrail Automation
  • Lab 8: Data Center Interconnect

Day 4

Chapter 10: Interacting with External Networks
  • DC Gateway Use Case/LI>
  • Implementing a DC Gateway
  • Lab 9: DC Gateway
Chapter 11: Fabric Administration
  • Generic Device Operations
  • Hitless Fabric Upgrade
  • Lab 10: Fabric Administration
Chapter 12: Contrail Security
  • The Need for Contrail Security
  • Contrail Security Configuration
  • Monitoring and Visualization
  • Lab 11: Contrail Security

Day 5

Chapter 13: AppFormix Overview
  • AppFormix Overview
  • AppFormix UI and General Settings AppFormix Features Overview: Clusters, Dashboard, Charts, Heat Map, Plan, Reports, Chargeback
Chapter 14: Alarms and Composite Alarms
  • Alarms
  • Alarms Case Study
  • Composite Alarms
  • Lab 12: Implementing AppFormix Features
Chapter 15: Junos Telemetry Interface
  • JTI Overview
  • Native Sensors for JTI
  • OpenConfig and gRPC Sensors for JTI
  • Lab 13: Implementing JTI with AppFormix