A beta version of The CloudRouter Project has been officially released.
The CloudRouter Project is an open source initiative for secure Linux-based open source routing and software-defined networking (SDN) in large-scale cloud environments, data centers, enterprises, and network operators. Backers of the project include CloudBees, Cloudius Systems, IIX, NGINX, and OpenDaylight.
It incorporates the latest release of OpenDaylight and will maintain a stable and up-to-date Linux distribution based on Fedora, including best-of-breed open source technologies. This provides DevOps for networks (NetOps) with the ability to easily deploy an integrated and hardened stack.
Key CloudRouter features include:
- Capability to run on public and private cloud infrastructures at scale with a fully-automated configuration system
- Container-ready, including support for Docker, Cloudius, OSv, and KVM images
- Secure connectivity using standards-based IPSec VPN, SSL or L2TP
- Monitoring and reporting with integrated network protocol analysis for network detail at a fine-grained level
- High availability and system redundancy with failover and synchronization
“With our peers in the industry, we hope to build a true open source community around the CloudRouter Project to really respond to industry demand for a secure, high-quality SDN and router distribution, something that’s essentially non-existent today,” said Jay Turner, CloudRouter Project Lead and Senior Director of DevOps at IIX. “As the industry moves to cloud computing, there needs to be a bridge from legacy architectures to SDN, hybrid clouds, and data center-to-data center connections. To accelerate the development of this bridge, the CloudRouter Project will initially focus on performance and security.”
