Putting it all together

In the previous sections, we have seen the different components of an OpenContrail-based SDN solution. Let us now put all these components together and understand the overall architecture of OpenContrail. We will also highlight the OpenStack integration points.

Figure 3 shows the complete deployment architecture for OpenContrail. We also show OpenStack nodes in this diagram to highlight the tight integration that OpenContrail has with OpenStack:

Putting it all together

Figure 3: Full deployment architecture

The two Compute Nodes are part of an OpenStack cluster running services such as the Nova Agent and so on. In addition, these Compute Nodes also ...

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