Welcome to Netris Documentation

Netris is the Automatic NetOps platform that runs the physical network and provides cloud-like user experience for NetOps and DevOps engineers.

Tutorials

• Generic Netris Tutorials
  • Installing a Netris Controller
  • Netris Upgrade and Rollback Procedures
• Netris VPC for Equinix Metal Tutorials
  • Equinix Metal API integration enablement
  • Provisioning Netris SoftGate nodes in Equinix Metal Project
  • Activating BGP on Equinix Metal Project
  • Enabling services (NAT, V-Net, Load Balancer, IP pools)
  • Using V-Net (isolated virtual network) services in Equinix Metal Project
  • Using on-demand (elastic) L4 Load Balancer service

Cloud Native Tools

• Kubernetes Integration
  • Install Netris Operator
    • Helm Chart Method
    • Regular Manifest Method
  • Using Type ‘LoadBalancer’
  • Using Netris Custom Resources
    • Introduction to Netris Custom Resources
    • L4LB Custom Resource
    • V-Net Custom Resource
    • BGP Custom Resource
    • Importing existing resources from Netris Controller to Kubernetes
    • Reclaim Policy
  • Calico CNI Integration
    • Disabling Netris-Calico Integration
• Terraform: Netris provider
  • Install Terraform
  • Create a directory for Terraform files
  • Configure a provider
  • Prepare an infrastructure plan
  • Create resources
  • Delete resources

Netris Fundamentals

• Introduction to Netris
• Netris Architecture
  • Netris Controller
  • Netris Switch Agent
  • Netris SoftGate
• Reference Network Architectures
  • Unmanaged Switch & Netris SoftGate
  • Unmanaged Switch & SoftGate (HA)
  • Netris Managed Switch & SoftGate (HA)
  • Netris Managed Switch & SoftGate scalable data center (HA)

Detailed Installation

• Controller Installation
  • Netris Controller installation on a generic Linux host
  • Helm Chart Installation
• Switch Agent Installation
  • Prerequisite Steps
  • Install the Netris Agent
• SoftGate Installation
  • Minimum Hardware Requirements
  • Install the Netris Agent
• SoftGate PRO Installation
  • Minimum Hardware Requirements
  • BIOS Configuration
  • Install the Netris Agent

Switch-fabric Configuration

• Definitions
• IP Address Management
  • Allocations and Subnets
  • Add an Allocation
  • Add a Subnet
• Inventory
  • Inventory Profiles
  • Adding Switches
  • Adding SoftGates
  • Viewing Inventory
• Topology Manager
  • Adding Links
  • Hairpin Links (Nvidia Cumulus only)
• Switch Ports

Network Policies

• Basic BGP
  • Adding BGP Peers
• Advanced BGP
  • BGP Objects
    • IPv4 Prefix
    • IPv6 Prefix
    • Community
  • BGP route-maps
• Static Routing
• NAT
  • Enabling NAT
  • Defining NAT rules
• SiteMesh
• Looking Glass

Network Services

• V-Net
  • V-Net Fields
• L3 Load Balancer (Anycast LB)
  • Creating an L3 Load Balancer
• L4 Load Balancer (L4LB)
  • Enabling L4LB service
  • Consuming L4LB service
• Access Control Lists (ACL)
  • ACL Default Policy
  • ACL Rules
  • ACL Approval Workflow
  • ACL Processing Order
• ROH (Routing on the Host)
  • Adding ROH Hosts

Operations

• Visibility (Telescope)
  • Graph Boards
  • API Logs
  • Dashboard
• Accounts
  • Users
  • Tenants
  • Permission Groups
  • User Roles

Updates

• Release notes
• SoftGate Performance