NFV & DPDK Performance Engineering

High-Performance Networking & Cloud-Native · 30 illustrated lessons (text/HTML)

Outcomes

• Design and benchmark virtual network functions
• Optimise DPDK performance with NUMA, cores and offload
• Build a service function chain end-to-end

Where we teach this

• NET-210 · DPDK & Userspace Kernel Bypass live cohort

The lessons

Every lesson in this curriculum, in the order we teach it.

• 1NFV and DPDK overview
• 2Challenges in modern network data planes
• 3DPDK architecture basics and environment setup
• 4DPDK runtime and the EAL in depth
• 5The DPDK poll-mode driver (PMD) explained
• 6DPDK memory management in practice
• 7DPDK multicore and threading model
• 8DPDK Packet Framework explained
• 9NFVI architecture explained: compute, network and storage virtualisation
• 10VNF design and implementation in practice
• 11NFV-MANO: introduction to management and orchestration
• 12DPDK with KVM virtualisation in practice
• 13DPDK and containerised NFV in practice
• 14High-performance packet I/O: DPDK receive and transmit flows and optimisation in practice
• 15Flow classification and load balancing
• 16QoS and traffic management
• 17Security and encryption/decryption processing
• 18DPDK performance profiling and debugging in practice
• 19DPDK test framework and best practices
• 20A virtual switch built on DPDK
• 21A virtual router built on DPDK
• 22A virtual load balancer on DPDK in practice
• 23A virtual firewall on DPDK in practice
• 24SR-IOV with DPDK in practice
• 25Smart NICs and hardware offload
• 26DPDK with SDN in practice
• 27NFV and DPDK in practice: service function chaining (SFC)
• 28NFV reliability in practice
• 29Cloud-native NFV trends in practice
• 30NFV and DPDK capstone: building a complete NFV use case