Juniper Networks (http://www.juniper.net/us/en/) offer a set of products aimed at network performance and security. It also provides Python-based open source projects (https://github.com/Juniper) to manage its platform. Contrail offers an SDN-enabled management solution and service delivery for wide area networks, thus supporting Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs).

Contrail Server Manager is a platform to manage the servers in a Contrail cluster. In this recipe, first we will set up Juniper Contrail Server Manager (https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-server-manager). You may learn more about configuring Contrail Server Manager and other Contrail bundles from http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/contrail4.0/information-products/pathway-pages/getting-started-pwp.pdf.

Juniper is open sourcing many of its networking solutions under OpenContrail project. We will look into the open source scripts available to manage and configure Contrail. Written in Python 2, these scripts do not support Python 3.