Understanding OpenSDN microservices architecture
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:date: 2020-04-07

What is OpenSDN microservices architecture?
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Employing microservices provides a number of benefits which includes:

-  Deploying patches without updating the entire OpenSDN deployment.

-  Better ways to manage the lifecycles of containers.

-  Improved user experiences with OpenSDN provisioning and upgrading.

-  Provisioning with minimum information provided.

-  Configuring every feature.

-  Simplify application complexity by implementing small, independent
   processes.

The containers and their processes are grouped as services and
microservices, and are similar to pods in the Kubernetes open-source
software used to manage containers on a server cluster.

Figure 1 shows how the
OpenSDN containers and microservices are grouped into a pod structure
upon installation.

|Figure 1: OpenSDN Containers, Pods, and Microservices|

Installing OpenSDN with microservices architecture
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These procedures help you to install and manage OpenSDN with
microservices architecture. 
 

.. |Figure 1: OpenSDN Containers, Pods, and Microservices| image:: images/g300352.png