Over the past year, ENA and EWERK have been collaborating on a new ACS plugin for the Tungsten Fabric SDN controller. ENA's Radu Todirica and Simon Weller will provide an update on progress, as well as a feature overview. About Simon Weller Simon Weller is the Senior Director Of Technology at ENA. He has a strong technology background in multiple competencies, including both networking and systems and a business development background with start-ups and established organizations. Simon is providing high value and knowledge across all facets of a company from engineering planning through to executive strategic initiatives. He is also a CloudStack PMC member. About Radu Todirica Radu Todirica is a Java developer. He started to work on CloudStack two years ago. Last year he started to work on Cloudstack and Tungsten SDN integration and currently is actively contributing to the development of this plugin. ----------------------------------------- CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea … We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries. ------------------------------------------ About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/

1. Tungsten Fabric SDN Integration

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EWERK and ENA chose to each contribute a dedicated developer to
the Tungsten SIG. Development by Minh Huy Lee (Huy) and Radu
Todirica. Technical support by Sven Vogel, Nathan Johnson, David
Mabry and Simon Weller.
Thanks for Daan Hoogland for continued help with initial code
review.
Special Interest Group – Tungsten Fabric SDN

3. Overview

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• Add a widely adopted SDN fabric to fill a feature gap in ACS
• Attempt to provide as close to a fully featured integration as
possible
• Initial focus on KVM, but can be easily expanded
• Enable advanced routing functionality (BGP, MPLS, LDP)
• Offload network processing for high performance
• Utilize Tungsten for enhanced security and compliance
Goals

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• Managed Network lifecycle
• High performance (DPDK, SR-IOV and Smart NIC support)
• Full API set
• Firewall capabilities
• Static NAT, Source NAT, Port forwarding and Load Balancing
• Dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 support
• Service chaining
• BGP (peering and Private BGP as a Service)
• Application based security policies (east/west concept)
• VM traffic encapsulated between hosts via MPLS or VXLAN
Tungsten Fabric Features

6. Integration with ACS

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• Adding a Tungsten provider in CloudStack
• Creating a network in Tungsten
• Creating a CloudStack virtual machine with a Tungsten network
• Synchronizing Tungsten domains/projects with CloudStack
domains/projects
• Adding Tungsten firewall and load balancing feature
• Adding Tungsten security groups
Integration with ACS

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• Testing all the Tungsten features together
• Writing unit and integrations tests to cover all the Tungsten
features
• Move the tungsten API client to CloudStack repository
What's left to do

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https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/4205
Target is ACS 4.16/4.17
Tungsten Fabric quick start: https://tungsten.io/start/
Where can you find it?

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Radu Todirica – rtodirica@ena.com
Simon Weller – sweller@ena.com
Questions?