1. Introduction

This document contains instructions for installing and configuring Contrail plugin for Fuel.

1.1. Key terms, acronyms and abbreviations

Juniper Contrail	Contrail Cloud Platform is a foundational element of Juniper’s open cloud networking and NFV solutions.
SDN	Software defined network
RESTful API	Representational state transfer application programming interface
IDS	Intrusion detection system
DPI	Deep packet inspection
VIP	virtual IP address
BGP	Border gateway protocol
AS	Autonomous system
Contrail vRouter	Contrail vRouter is part of the compute node, which gets reachability information from the control plane and ensures native L3 services for host-based virtual machines.
MOS	Mirantis OpenStack

1.2. Overview

Contrail plugin for Fuel provides the functionality to add Contrail SDN for Mirantis OpenStack as networking backend option using Fuel Web UI in a user-friendly manner. Juniper Networks Contrail is an open software defined networking solution that automates and orchestrates the creation of highly scalable virtual networks.

Contrail features:

• Powerful API calls (REST or direct python class calls)
• Analytics engine: Traffic flow reports, statistics
• Network management at 2-4 OSI layers
• Service chaining architecture: you can transparently pass traffic through service instances, such as IDS, firewalls, DPI.
• Fine grained virtual network access policy control