People Interested to contribute:

Sridhar Rao (Implementation Only)

Target Phase of Cloud-Lifecycle:

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• Hardware Delivery.
• Racking / Stacking
• Power On.
• Hardware configuration and (Validation – handled by CIRV-HDV).
• [N/W Configuration]
• Cloud Deployment (Multiple Installer projects - Airship, Triple-O, Fuel, Kuberef, etc.)

Project description

In the real-world cloud deployment, network device configuration always takes a lot time. So to reduce the time for cloud deployment, we need an automation tool to configure network devices.

In order to do that, we will need define common architecture configuration requirements reference for network devices, and a flexible automation tool which will take user network configuration requirements/preference and network planning as input. 

Scope

The scope of this project will including 2 parts: specification and implementation 

Specification-RI:

Define common network device topology, which will including router, SDN GW, EOR, and TOR all network devices in Access layer, aggregation layer, and outgoing layer, both SDN and Non-SDN

Define the common network device configuration requirements, like

VRF configuration reference to separate different network

M-LAG, LACP, STP, OSPF and other protocol  reference, Link aggregation configuration reference

Security reference

etc

Implementation:

We expecting this tool could be highly flexible and scalable, the tool should be able to configure network devices based on the users inputs, including configuration requirements/preference and network planning.

define the standard user preference model

define the standard network planning model

then the tool will generate the transcript of configuration items, and then configure network devices according to Network device description file.

Dependency

PDF(Pod Description File). The description file should includes information for all network device : name, IP, location, login info, role, port-mapping table

Implementation

Technology:

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Cloud IP-Planning as Input

People Interested to contribute:

Jie Niu (mainly work on specification)

Liang CHEN

Sridhar Rao (Implementation Only)