Open Networking Summit Europe 2019

A lot of existing controllers focus on transport, by implementing southbound protocols such as NetConf, OpenFlow, etc...

This generic controller also focuses on content, and follow the Inversion of Control pattern. Using a model-driven approach, leveraging TOSCA, network designer are able to define their config provisioning/lice cycle management action in a self-serve manner.

This lightweight micro-service platform has two main capabilities:
1- Focuses on resources required for a given action, source(s), and how to resolve and transform them using templates
2- Enables the self-serve teams to own the configuration logic by providing scripts, or by acting as proxy to 3rd party systems (incl. vendor EMS).

The execution of the former occurs in separate micro-service, able to scale horizontally under load.