The Netris Plugin

Introduction

The Netris Plugin introduces Netris as a network service provider in CloudStack to be able to create and manage Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in CloudStack, being able to orchestrate the following network functionalities:

  • Network segmentation with Netris-VXLAN isolation method

  • Routing between “public” IP and network segments with an ACS ROUTED mode offering

  • SourceNAT, DNAT, 1:1 NAT between “public” IP and network segments with an ACS NATTED mode offering

  • Routing between VPC network segments (tiers in ACS nomenclature)

  • Access Lists (ACLs) between VPC tiers and “public” network (TCP, UDP, ICMP) both as global egress rules and “public” IP specific ingress rules.

  • ACLs between VPC network tiers (TCP, UDP, ICMP)

  • External load balancing – between VPC network tiers and “public” IP

  • Internal load balancing – between VPC network tiers

  • CloudStack Virtual Router services (DHCP, DNS, UserData, Password Injection, etc…)

Supported Versions

Hypervisor

CloudStack Version

Netris Version

KVM

>= 4.20

4.4.0

Table: Supported Versions