Detailed Course Outline
Course Introduction
Course Prologue
- Describe the basics of the Cloud-Native Contrail Networking solution
- Identify the key Contrail use cases
- Outline a use case scenario for the course
Kubernetes Overview
- Describe Kubernetes fundamentals
- Describe the Kubernetes objects
- Describe Kubernetes networking
- Describe connecting applications with services
Lab 1: Working with Kubernetes
Describing Cloud-Native Contrail Networking Architecture
- Describe the Contrail architecture and its core components
- Describe component communications
- Describe deployment models
- Describe the configuration resources
Installing Cloud-Native Contrail Networking
- Describe the installation process for Contrail on Upstream Kubernetes
- Identify other components to be installed
Verifying and Troubleshooting Contrail Installation
- Validate cluster state using kubectl
- Validate using log files
- Validate using Contrailstatus plug-in
- Describe Kubernetes-specific validations
Lab 2: Validating the Contrail installation
Describing Contrail CNI
- Define CNI plugins
- Explain the CN2 CNI default implementation
- Explain the CN2 CNI custom implementation
Implementing Namespaces
- Describe namespaces
- Implement an additional namespace
- Implement an isolated namespace
Lab 3: Implementing Namespaces
Describing Services
- Describe service support
Implementing Services
- Implement a ClusterIP service
- Implement a NodePort service
- Implement a LoadBalance service
- Implement ingress access
Lab 4: Implementing Services
Describing Network Policies
- Describe the Kubernetes network policy concepts
- Describe the network policies YAML template
Implementing Network Policies
- Isolate pods from traffic sourced from other namespaces
- Implement a policy based on namespace, pod, and port
- Implement an ingress policy based on IP Block and port, with egress enabled based on namespace
Lab 5: Implementing Network Policies
Describing Virtual Networks
- Describe virtual networks
- Describe network attachment definitions with Multus
- Describe user-defined virtual network templates
Implementing Virtual Networks
- Implement a user-defined virtual network
- Attach deployments to a virtual network
- Implement user-defined pod network
- Attach deployments to a user-defined pod network
Lab 6: Implementing Virtual Networks
Implementing Route Targets
- Describe route targets
- Implement route targets
Lab 7: Implementing Route Targets
Implementing Virtual Network Routers
- Describe virtual network routers
- Implement mesh virtual network routers
- Implement hub-and-spoke virtual network routers
- Implement multi-namespace virtual network routers
Lab 8: Implementing Virtual Network Routers
Implementing IP Forwarding and Fabric Source NAT
- Implement IP forwarding
- Implement fabric source NAT
Lab 9: Implementing IP Forwarding and Fabric Source NAT
Basic CN2 Troubleshooting
- Describe basic CN2 troubleshooting
Lab 10: Performing Basic CN2 Troubleshooting