LinuxCon ContainerCon CloudOpen China

Containerized Network Function in NFV environment is becoming popular due to its low overhead and fast boot-up time characteristics quite fit certain NFV scenarios (e.g. vCPE and Cloud Radio Access Network). But the current container networking solutions building from legacy in-kernel components such as vEth pairs and Bridge become performance bottle-neck in NFV environment. The presentation will show an open source high performance Container Networking solution that includes below key elements 1) DPDK virtio_user Polling Model Driver and Vector Packet Processing to accelerate the container-to-host interface and vSwitch respectively. 2) Calico controls and manages the accelerated data plane in a flat L3 networking within Quagga based vRouter. 3) Enable Kubernetes/Docker to support the Enhanced Platform Awareness features for scheduling and placing Containerized Network Functions.