Detailed Course Outline
Day 1
Chapter 1: Course Introduction
Chapter 2: SDN and Contrail
- Review of SDN
- Contrail Basics Contrail Advantages, Capabilities, and Features Contrail Products and Solutions Contrail Use Cases Contrail Command
- Lab 1: Contrail Command Walkthrough
Chapter 3: Orchestration Fundamentals
- Orchestrator Overview
- Kubernetes Orchestrator
- OpenStack Orchestrator
- Lab 2: Instantiating Virtual Workloads
Day 2
Chapter 4: Contrail Architecture Fundamentals
- Contrail Architecture Overview
- Contrail Management and Analytics
- Contrail Control Plane Communications
- Contrail Data Plane Communications
- Basic Contrail Troubleshooting
- Lab 3: Exploring and Troubleshooting the Contrail vRouter and SDN Controller
Chapter 5: Contrail Configuration
- Contrail Configuration Methods
- Configuring DNS and IPAM
- Configuring the Metadata Service
- Configuring Virtual Networks
- Configuring Network Policies and Security Groups
- Contrail Configuration API
- Lab 4: Configuring Virtual Networks and Policies
Chapter 6: IP Fabric Automation
- IP Fabric Review
- Greenfield Fabric Automation
- Brownfield Fabric Automation
- Troubleshooting Fabric Automation
- Lab 5: IP Fabric Automation
Day 3
Chapter 7: VM to BMS Bridging
- VXLAN Review
- EVPN Signaling for BMS to BMS VXLAN Forwarding
- Contrail VM to BMS Bridging<./li>
- Server/Instance example
- Virtual Port Groups
- Lab 6: VM to BMS Bridging
Chapter 8: VXLAN Routing
- EVPN Signaling for Central Routing
- Central Routing Example
- EVPN Signaling for Edge Routing
- Edge Routing Example
- Lab 7: VXLAN Routing
Chapter 9: Data Center Interconnect
- DCI Overview
- DCI Options for a VXLAN Overlay using Contrail Automation
- DCI Example using Contrail Automation
- Lab 8: Data Center Interconnect
Day 4
Chapter 10: Interacting with External Networks
- DC Gateway Use Case/LI>
- Implementing a DC Gateway
- Lab 9: DC Gateway
Chapter 11: Fabric Administration
- Generic Device Operations
- Hitless Fabric Upgrade
- Lab 10: Fabric Administration
Chapter 12: Contrail Security
- The Need for Contrail Security
- Contrail Security Configuration
- Monitoring and Visualization
- Lab 11: Contrail Security
Day 5
Chapter 13: AppFormix Overview
- AppFormix Overview
- AppFormix UI and General Settings AppFormix Features Overview: Clusters, Dashboard, Charts, Heat Map, Plan, Reports, Chargeback
Chapter 14: Alarms and Composite Alarms
- Alarms
- Alarms Case Study
- Composite Alarms
- Lab 12: Implementing AppFormix Features
Chapter 15: Junos Telemetry Interface
- JTI Overview
- Native Sensors for JTI
- OpenConfig and gRPC Sensors for JTI
- Lab 13: Implementing JTI with AppFormix