Caution
The OpenContrail versions support status:
OpenContrail 4.1 is fully supported.
OpenContrail 4.0 is deprecated and not supported for new deployments since MCP maintenance update 2019.2.4.
OpenContrail 3.2 is not supported for new deployments.
OpenContrail is a highly scalable distributed Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution for MCP. It provides NFV capabilities as well as powerful network analytics and visualization of results through a web UI. OpenContrail cluster is integrated with to provision, orchestrate, and deploy high-performance clusters with various networking features.
Caution
OpenContrail 4.x for Kubernetes 1.12 or later is not supported.
The following table describes the main features of OpenContrail in comparison with OVS for OpenStack:
Feature name |
OpenContrail |
OVS |
|---|---|---|
Encapsulation |
MPLSoGRE, MPLSoUDP, VXLAN |
VLAN, VXLAN, GRE, Geneve |
Security and multitenancy |
Native overlay, label, namespaces |
Native overlay, label, namespaces |
Multi-cloud |
Bare metal, VMs, containers |
Bare metal, VMs, containers |
Network analytics |
Yes |
No |
NFV |
Yes |
Yes |
Dataplane acceleration |
DPDK, SR-IOV |
DPDK, SR-IOV |
Extra features |
Bare metal extensions, L2VPN, L3VPN |
LBaaS |