Monday, May 9, 2022

Juniper revamps Contrail SDN with cloud-native capabilities

Juniper has revamped its Contrail Networking with a Kubernetes-native architecture that provides an automated, high performance and scalable cloud-native networking solution.

Juniper Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2) supports Kubernetes and OpenShift use cases. 

CN2 integrates as a foundational piece of cluster infrastructure by employing the Kubernetes extension framework of custom resources. 

Juniper has also extended Lens, the popular Kubernetes GUI, with a Contrail plug-in. 

Unlike previous versions of Contrail, CN2 was built privately as closed source. 

https://blogs.juniper.net/en-us/service-provider-transformation/contrail-networking-now-with-cloud-native-capabilities

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