Footprint-optimized distributed computing: OpenStack with distributed compute leverages the latest OpenStack capabilities to remotely manage the lifecycle of compute nodes and virtual machines (VMs) from a centralized data center without requiring the footprint of co-located OpenStack control plane functions in each of these remote edge sites. This is critical in space-, power- and compute-constrained edge sites.

Containers for faster time to revenue: Kubernetes provides the orchestration for the containerized applications. Kubernetes containers will allow service providers to increase the density of applications deployed on their platforms and be more immediately responsive to service provisioning and activation.

Unified workflow, policy and service chaining: Contrail Networking with remote compute capabilities enables service providers to deliver a seamless network fabric between VMs, containers and bare metal servers from a single user interface across physical and virtual environments. Contrail Networking translates abstract workflows into specific networking policies, simplifying the orchestration of virtual overlay connectivity across all environments. Fabric management capabilities automate policies and life-cycle management of each data center and edge site fabric. Contrail Networking provides connectivity and service chaining for OpenStack VM, Kubernetes containers, and bare metal workloads without requiring the footprint of co-located control plane functions.

Native security and microsegmentation: Contrail Security provides visibility, telemetry, and network policy enforcement in a single unified mechanism for service providers that are increasingly deploying a mix of VMs and containers. It includes adaptive firewall policies, and tag-based ability to enforce security policies across Kubernetes and OpenStack.

Open source storage: Ceph, a massively scalable, open-source, software-defined storage system capable of auto-scaling to the exabyte capacity, provides a common OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructure for file, object and block storage.

Machine learning-based analytics: AppFormix provides machine learning-based performance and health monitoring to give health and service insights into workloads and deployments.

Full-featured virtualized security: cSRX and vSRX deliver an industry leading container and virtualized security instance as part of the service chain.