Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs) are containerized instances of a classic physical or virtual network functions (VNF). A fast dataplane incorporating current and future VNFs functions is tablestakes. Exposing the CNF dataplane to applications and plugins requires a control plane agent with APIs.
Read MoreWe know about Kubernetes (K8s) API. Contiv-VPP comes with its own set of REST APIs out of the box. You can exercise many of these APIs to gain a better understanding of how it works. In this blog, we’ll look at how a set of K8s and Contiv VPP REST APIs can be used to discover a cluster network topology.
Read MoreContiv-VPP contiv-netctl is a command line interface (CLI) for querying information about Contiv-VPP componentsoperating inside a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster. This blog covers contiv-netctl syntax, describes the available commands, and provides common examples.contiv-netctl is installed on the K8s control plane during the installation of the Contiv-VPP CNI plugin.