Network Automation in the Data Center

This course benefits individuals responsible for working with software-defined networking solutions in their data center.

Network Automation in the Data Center is an advanced-level course.

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

• Identify how automation and Network functions Virtualization (NFV) can help data centers.
• Implement automation in an underlay and overlay network.
• Implement Contrail services, security, and analytics.
• Explain the possibilities for extending automation through orchestration.
• Configure Contrail overlay protocols.
• Describe Contrail service nodes and gateways.
• Use Contrail to configure connections to TOR switches using TSM modules.
• Explain how IP fabrics that use Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN) for Data Center Interconnect (DCI) operate.
• Analyze IP fabric DCI configurations.
• Explain the steps for configuring high availability in Contrail.
• Configure the services necessary to support service chains.
• Deploy multidevice service chains commonly seen in data centers.
• Explain the unique security risks and opportunities of a virtualized data center.
• Configure multitenancy in Contrail for increased security.
• Configure security groups in OpenStack.
• Configure MD5 authentication of Contrail BGP sessions.
• Identify what must be monitored for appropriate data center visibility.
• Configure Contrail analytics and monitoring to support data center needs.
• Configure Contrail Ceilometer.

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Chapter 2: Automation in the Data Center Overview

• Market Drivers for Automation in the Data Center
• Understanding the Underlay and Overlay Network
• Automating Services, Security, and Analytics
• Service Orchestration and OSS/BSS Systems

Chapter 3: Automating the Underlay

• The Evolution of Data Center Fabrics
• IP Clos Routing and IP Clos Configuration Review
• utomating IP Clos Fabric Creation using Ansible
• Use Case: Configuring an IP Clos Fabric using Ansible
• Lab 1: Automating the Underlay Using Ansible

Chapter 4: Automating the Overlay Network

• Data Plane Protocols
• Control Plane Protocols
• Contrail Services Using Containers
• Extending Contrail to the Physical Network
• Contrail Storage
• IPv6 Support in Contrail
• Lab 2: Automating the Overlay

Chapter 5: Creating a Data Center Interconnect Overlay Network

• Review of DCI Methods
• Challenges with DCI Overlay Networks
• IP Fabric DCI using EVPN and VXLAN
• IP Fabric DCI Overlay Use Cases
• IP Fabric DCI Configurations

Chapter 6: Automating Service Creation

• High Availability in Contrail and OpenStack
• Configuring DNS Services
• Deploying Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS)
• onfiguring Service Chains
• Lab 3: Automating Service Creation

Chapter 7: Automation and Security

• Security Opportunities and Risks in the Virtualized Data Center
• Security Inherent in Using vRouters
• Configuring Multitenancy
• Security Groups in OpenStack
• Configuring MD5 Authentication of Contrail BGP Sessions
• Lab 4: Configuring Security in Contrail

Chapter 8: Monitoring and Analytics

• Methods of Analyzing using the Analytics Engine
• Bottom Up Approach to Analyzing
• Top Down Approach to Analyzing
• Advanced Analytics: Ceilometer and Heat Autoscaling
• Lab 5: Using Contrail Ceilometer

The prerequisites for this course are as follows:

• General understanding of data center virtualization;
• Completion of the Advanced Data Center Switching (ADCX) course;
• Completion of the Network Automation Using Contrail Cloud (NACC) course;
• experience with programming or scripting is recommended (Python, Ruby, Perl, C, or C++).

• ADCX - Advanced Data Center Switching
• NACC - Network Automation using Contrail Cloud

• This course is recommended training for the Juniper Networks Certified Professional SDN and Automation (JNCIP-SDNA) exam