BiB 24: Juniper OpenContrail At NFD17 - One Fabric To Bind Them

Fresh from a two-hour Network Field Day session at Juniper on its OpenContrail transition to the Linux Foundation, Greg and Drew do a hot take on what we saw and what it means.

We also quickly review Juniper’s ambitions for its commercial Contrail product.

Moving OpenContrail to be fully open source is harder than it looks
The move is customer driven (as we hinted previously)
OpenContrail will diverge from Contrail
Contrail wants to bridge your private and public clouds, with support for AWS, Google, etc.
Juniper is building a network platform and moving past products
Emphasizing security because you can control the network correctly