Understanding OpenSDN microservices architecture¶

date:: 2020-04-07

What is OpenSDN microservices architecture?¶

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¶

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