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Documents in this section provide background concepts and procedures for planning, deploying, and maintaining fabrics using the Fabric Services System.
Connect Guide
This document describes aspects of the Fabric Services System Connect, a collection of intermediary software that acts as a bridge between the Fabric Services System and different cloud environments.
The OpenStack plugin

Operate and maintain
Documents in this section provide background concepts and procedures for planning, deploying, and maintaining fabrics using the Fabric Services System.
- User Guide
  This document describes concepts necessary to use the Fabric Services System. It also includes procedures for designing, deploying, and maintaining fabrics, and designating fabric resources for allocation to specific sources of demand.
- Digital Sandbox CLI Guide
  This document describes concepts and commands required to interact directly with the Digital Sandbox, a network simulator to which you can deploy fabric intents and workload intents from the Fabric Services System.
- API Integration Guide
  This document describes aspects of the Fabric Services System REST API.
- Connect Guide
  This document describes aspects of the Fabric Services System Connect, a collection of intermediary software that acts as a bridge between the Fabric Services System and different cloud environments.

The OpenStack plugin

The Fabric Services System integrates with OpenStack to provide fabric level application networks for OpenStack Virtual Machines. The Connect integration leverages the OpenStack Neutron architecture to support managing the fabric directly from OpenStack and make the fabric dynamically respond to the networking needs of the application.

It provides the following advantages and capabilities:

Direct integration into the network management workflow of OpenStack.
The use of the common ML2 Plugins used by Enterprise applications and VNFs like OVS, OVS-DPDK and SR-IOV.
Automatic provisioning of the fabric based on where the Virtual Machines need the connectivity.
Support advanced workflows through the Fabric Service System Managed solution. Including for VNF use cases with features like QoS, ACLs, BGP PE-CE, ...
Interconnectivity between different cloud environments, allowing for flexible network configurations.

June 5, 2023

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