Nokia Event-Driven Automation (EDA) Fundamentals

Course objectives

After completing the course, students should be able to:

•   Explain the intent-based framework approach
•   Describe how EDA supports intent-based automation of the data center fabric
•   Understand how EDA builds on Kubernetes
•   Explain EDA node onboarding, including ZTP
•   Describe the workflow for deploying a fabric intent with EDA
•   Describe the workflow to deploy Layer 2 and Layer 3 workload intents with EDA
•   Use EDA to monitor the data center fabric state and ensure intent alignment

Course modules

Module 1 – Intent-Based Automation with EDA
 

• Introduction to Nokia’s solution for data centers

• How EDA leverages Kubernetes to automate networks

• EDA architecture

• EDA support for day 0, day 1 and day 2+ operations

Module 2 – Data Center Fabric-intent with EDA
 

• EDA and networking node onboarding 

• Basic configuration with EDA configlets

• Fabric intent with EDA – Automating the underlay network

• Explaining EDA transactions

• Verify the status of the data center fabric

• Lab exercises:

  • Lab 1: Networking node onboarding

  • Lab 2: Fabric intent deployment and verification

  • Lab 3: Explore EDA transactions

Module 3 – Workload-intent with EDA
 

• Introduction to L2/L3 EVPN services

• Configure and verify a L2 overlay service

• Configure and verify a L3 overlay service

• Lab exercises:

  • Lab 4: L2 EVPN intent 

  • Lab 5: L3 EVPN intent

  • Lab 6: ACL filters

Module 4 – EDA Continuous Network Operations
 

• System Monitoring

• Dealing with network alarms

• Handling intent deviations

• EDA regular and natural language queries

• Lab exercises:

  • Lab 7: Alarms, Deviations, Queries