Mirantis and Juniper Networks have entered into an expanded engineering partnership to provide customers with a reliable, open-source software-defined networking (SDN) fabric to deploy OpenStack clouds at scale. With the agreement, Mirantis OpenStack, an OpenStack distribution, will now support and interoperate with Juniper Contrail Networking, a standards based SDN solution for enterprise and service provider customers. Mirantis' OpenStack also supports and interoperates with OpenContrail, an open source SDN solution.
Both companies have also published a reference architecture for deploying and managing Juniper Contrail Networking with Mirantis OpenStack so that customers can easily scale OpenStack clouds without relying on complex, expensive and vendor-proprietary networking and management software. The reference architecture is validated for Mirantis OpenStack 6.0 (based on OpenStack Juno). Mirantis and Juniper plan to release a Fuel plugin in the next quarter to further automate and simplify deploying and managing large-scale OpenStack clouds.
Mirantis is the go-to vendor for building an OpenStack cloud. Integration of Mirantis OpenStack with Juniper Contrail Networking gives the enterprise-grade support that customers expect for large-scale open-source cloud deployments. By providing developers, partners and customers a proven, open-source reference architecture, together Mirantis and Juniper will help accelerate adoption, foster new innovation and help customers realize the benefits of SDN more quickly.
Jason Venner, Mirantis, chief architect and OpenContrail Advisory Board member
Real-life customer installations demonstrate that Juniper Contrail Networking works at scale for OpenStack. By leveraging Juniper Contrail Networking with Mirantis OpenStack, companies can reliably operate large production OpenStack clouds with software-defined networking, improving data center performance, automation and scalability. Plus, its open source and proven open-standard protocols offer customers future-proofing and investment protection in how they architect their cloud.
