...
- Hardware Delivery.
- Racking / Stacking
- Power On.
- Hardware configuration and (Validation – handled by CIRV-HDV).
- [N/W Configuration]
- cabling – already done
- BMC is connected – already done
- Link aggregation, OSPF, VRF, STP, security configuration, NTP, - need to make sure if this can be done by SDN controller(ZTE, Huawei, H3C). day-0
- SDN – discover & plan network.
- Cloud Deployment (Multiple Installer projects - Airship, Triple-O, Fuel, Kuberef, etc.)
...
In the real-world cloud deployment, network device configuration always takes a lot time, the reason could be network adjustment from cloud application, or lack of common definition. So to reduce the time for cloud deployment, we need a flexible fc automation tool to configure network devices.
Existing challenges
1,time consuming, multiple reconfiguration, so machine readable configuration is needed
2,no uniform way to provide configuration for SDN controller –
In order to do that, we will need define common architecture configuration requirements as reference for network devices, and a flexible automation tool which will take user network configuration requirements/preference and network planning as input.
...
User do not have to provide all network devices configuration requirements at once, we can configure network devices step by step based on the user input. For example, if we only got TOR requirements from user requirements, we can just configure TOR.
...