The Junos® containerized routing protocol daemon (cRPD) offers deployment-hardened, feature-rich routing functionality in a container for cloud-native deployments. Decoupling the control plane from the data plane offers platform flexibility, simplicity, automation, elastic scalability, and operational efficiency, delivering a true “One Junos” experience in routers, servers, or any Linux-based device. By packaging Juniper Networks® Junos operating system applications and their related routing stacks as a Docker container, Juniper extends traditional disaggregation by creating a flexible consumption model for network applications that can be easily scaled out.
- Flexibility to use Juniper routing in many use cases
- Junos cRPD delivers Juniper routing applications in a container that can run on a white box with SONiC or a server running the Linux operating system, providing a single routing stack across the infrastructure independent of the underlying hardware. The ability of Junos cRPD to program forwarding information in 3rd party data planes provides the flexibility to use power of Juniper routing in many containerized, virtualized and disaggregated use cases.
- Trusted Rich Routing Technology
- Junos cRPD is a fully functional routing stack that supports protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP, and more. Built with proven technology and undergoing rigorous testing, cRPD delivers vendor-supported routing across open or mixed infrastructures. As a result, Junos cRPD supports use cases such as egress peer engineering to select the best path for service routes, route reflector for scale-out fabric, routing redundancy, and application high availability with routing on the host.
- Advanced Automation and Management
- In addition to orchestration by Kubernetes and OpenShift, Junos cRPD uses Juniper Extension Toolkit API, Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), RESCONF, and others to automate network operations, simplify workflows, and optimize network infrastructure to reduce downtime and ensure high performance. To further increase manageability, Junos cRPD provides deep OpenConfig-based telemetry for accurate decision making.
- Open Programmability
- Junos cRPD support for OpenConfig and SONiC are concrete proof points of Juniper’s commitment to open programmability.
- Elastic Scalability
- As a containerized solution with fast startup and a small software footprint supporting up to 200 million IPv4 or IPv6 routes, Junos cRPD is rapidly scalable across the infrastructure by easily adding new instances.
- High-Performance Routing Solution
- Junos cRPD is designed to maximize routing performance. For example, it is capable of reflecting 10 copies of Internet routes to 1000 BGP peers in less than 60 seconds.
