Architecture
7 articles
SDN using OVN and OVS (Part 5)
OVN and OVS Part 5: east-west and north-south traffic flows, distributed routing, and how OVN handles external connectivity via gateway chassis.
12 Jul 2024SDN using OVN and OVS (Part 4)
OVN and OVS Part 4: configuring OVS bridges, provider networks, and chassis-to-chassis tunnelling — the physical plumbing that makes OVN work.
11 Jul 2024SDN using OVN and OVS (Part 3)
OVN and OVS Part 3: logical switches, logical routers, and how OVN models virtual network topology independently from the physical underlay.
10 Jul 2024SDN using OVN and OVS (Part 1)
An introduction to OVN and OVS for Software Defined Networking — architecture overview, core components (ovn-northd, Northbound/Southbound DBs), and how the SDN controller model works.
9 Jul 2024SDN using OVN and OVS (Part 2)
OVN and OVS Part 2: diving into the Southbound database, ovn-controller, and how logical flows are translated into physical OpenFlow rules on each chassis.
9 Jul 2024How public cloud is changing our approach to datacenter
The datacenter is having a renaissance. SDDC technologies built for public cloud are reshaping how we think about on-premises computing.
17 Dec 2023Monitoring is not an add-on
Why monitoring should be a first-class concern in your architecture, not an afterthought. Lessons from building highly scalable, resilient systems.
10 Mar 2023