Introduction to the Juniper Contrail Networking Solution (Coursera)

Offered by Juniper Networks,
Introduction to the Juniper Contrail Networking Solution (Coursera)

This course will introduce you to Juniper Networks Contrail Networking, a cloud-native SDN solution for intelligent networking and security for Telco and IT cloud. You will learn about the concepts of a virtual network, underlays and overlays, as well as tunneling protocols such as VXLAN. The course will explore Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) approaches.

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You will learn about cloud-native Contrail Networking architecture and integration with orchestrations systems such as Kubernetes. Navigating the Contrail user interface and Contrail’s advanced networking features to create Kubernetes custom networks and multi-interface Pods will also be explored.
Course 3 of 3 in the Introduction to Juniper Cloud Concepts & Contrail Networking Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Introduction to the Juniper Contrail Networking Solution
This course will introduce you to Juniper Networks Contrail Networking, a cloud-native SDN solution for intelligent networking and security for Telco and IT cloud. You will learn about the concepts of a virtual network, underlays and overlays, as well as tunneling protocols such as VXLAN. The course will explore Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) approaches. You will learn about cloud-native Contrail Networking architecture and integration with orchestrations systems such as Kubernetes. Navigating the Contrail user interface and Contrail’s advanced networking features to create Kubernetes custom networks and multi-interface Pods will also be explored.

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