Fabric Controller(FC) is one of the software components of Multi-Service Fabric(MSF).
FC provides the Network abstraction, managememt and the Northbound REST API interfaces.
Network Abstraciton
FC manages multiple switches as one cluster. FC newly defined "edge-point" as a logical ID that uniquely identified in a cluster. By associating the edge-point with the physical-IF and/or LAG-IF, FC is able to control the network with only abstracted edge-point information. Therefore, upper systems don't need to know the configuration of the network.
Network Management
- Overlay Network Control: upper systems can easily create a VPN by selecting edge-point and the slice network to be assigned.
- Underlay Network Control: By managing Underlay network topology using the newly defined "Logical-port", FC is able to control without regard to the IF type(Tengig, Hundred,..) and/or switch vendor, model. Association of logical-port and edge-point is done by FC, and that of Logical-port and phisical-IF is done by EC.
- Visualization of Network topology: FC has a logical network topology.
- FC: Main process
- NTP client: Communicate with NTP server and sync clock
- Pacemaker: Middleware that controls redundancy function
- PostgreSQL: Database server
- RA: Exe by Pacemaker to control the redundancy
- FC-DB: Storage for Database
- installation
- build
- API guide
The following conditions are the minimum operation environment.
| item | Configuraiton |
|---|---|
| OS | CentOS7.2 x86_64 |
| CPU | 2 Core or more |
| memory | 1G or more |
| NIC | 1 port or more |
Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.
If you have any questions, or find any bug, let us know with GitHub issues, or please contact msf-contact [at] lab.ntt.co.jp.
This project is a part of Multi-Service Fabric.