projectcalico / projectcalico/vpp-dataplane

Service Function Chaining (SFC) Support

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Description

Is calico planning to support Service function chaining for bare-metal Kubernetes deployment?

VPP which is also the dataplane for Network Service Mesh NSM supports Policy-driven service function chaining.

SFC is a key technology for certain Telco workloads and there are not many CNIs in K8s ecosystem that supports SFC.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start by reading the linked OpenStack Service Function Chaining documentation and the Network Service Mesh reference, then inspect the vpp-dataplane repository's current bare-metal Kubernetes networking entry points. The issue is complete when Calico's VPP dataplane either supports policy-driven SFC for that deployment or documents a concrete limitation and implementation plan.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go, kubernetes
Domain
networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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