The INDIGO Virtual Router Appliance facilitates creation of overlay networks across multiple federated cloud sites. It is being developed as a part of a cloud stack provided by the INDIGO-DataCloud project. It is network router appliance with the following features:
- Inter-site point to point VPN
- Redundant topologies
- Set up in userspace
- Configured on contextualization to enable network topology control by Platform as a Service (PaaS) orchestrators
This repository contains contextualization scripts to install and configure the INDIGO Virtual Router appliance in a plain Linux image.
Each Indigo vRouter Appliance create a secure connection to "Central point". "Central point" is dedicate vRouter which provides connection between all Indigo vRouter Appliances. Indigo vRouter Appliance has these requirements:
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Internet to reach the main router (also needed for installation), the public IPv4 address is not required
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two interfaces (Internet connectivity and internal network)
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Debian GNU/Linux (9.0 (stretch) supported and tested) or Ubuntu Distribution (16.04 (xenial) and 18.04 (bionic) supported and tested)
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OpenVPN 2
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ISC DHCP server