--- title: Deploying Juniper Contrail SDN on Ubuntu OpenStack description: In this video, we’re going to show you just how quick and easy it is to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack and Juniper Networks Contrail Networking using Canonical’s cloud services modeling tool, Juju. Juju enables users to quickly model, configure, deploy, scale and manage entire cloud environments with just a few commands. Ubuntu is the most popul […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/deploying-juniper-contrail-sdn-on-ubuntu-openstack?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Ellen Arnold](https://canonical.com/blog/author/ellenjanearnold "More about Ellen Arnold") 29 February 2016 # Deploying Juniper Contrail SDN on Ubuntu OpenStack [Contrail](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/contrail) [Juju](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/juju) [juniper](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/juniper) [networking](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/networking) [sdn](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/sdn) --- Share the article In this video, we’re going to show you just how quick and easy it is to deploy [Ubuntu OpenStack](http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/openstack) and [Juniper Networks Contrail Networking](http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/sdn/contrail/) using Canonical’s cloud services modeling tool, [Juju.](http://jujucharms.com) * Juju enables users to quickly model, configure, deploy, scale and manage entire cloud environments with just a few commands. Ubuntu is the most popular operating system for OpenStack, used in [65% of large scale deployments](https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/28/news-from-the-summit-ubuntu-extends-lead-in-openstack/) according to the most recent OpenStack foundation survey (Tokyo Summit, October 2015). Ubuntu is the reference operating system for OpenStack deployments, making it the easiest way to build an OpenStack cloud. Ubuntu OpenStack can be deployed in minutes using Juju. * Contrail Networking is the most popular 3rd party SDN chosen in OpenStack today Once you have your cloud up and running, Juju continues to enable you to work quickly and efficiently, with nearly 300 cloud applications available in the Juju Charm Store.  One of the first, and more complicated, items you may need to implement is networking.  With the Juniper Networks Contrail charm, this is only a few clicks away. Juniper Networks Contrail Networking is a simple, open, and agile SDN solution that automates and orchestrates the creation of highly scalable virtual networks.  Contrail’s Juju Charm enables seamless integration into Ubuntu OpenStack and makes it even faster and easier to use Contrail networking, particularly with scale out workloads. In this first video,  we will demonstrate Juju modeling and introduce the basic functionality of Juniper Contrail.  We will follow up this initial video with a series of videos that take a deeper look into Contrail Networking and the functions we have enabled via the Contrail Juju Charm. [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### What is InfiniBand?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-infiniband) When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve that problem?... [Benjamin Ryzman](https://canonical.com/blog/author/benjaminryzman) 2 June 2026 [### What is RDMA?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-rdma) Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data between servers is... [Benjamin Ryzman](https://canonical.com/blog/author/benjaminryzman) 11 February 2026 [### Deploy your Spring Boot application to production](https://canonical.com/blog/deploy-spring-application-to-production) In this article we walk through the steps required to deploy a Spring Boot application to production using Juju and Kubernetes. The goal is to showcase the integration of the... [Javier de la Puente](https://canonical.com/blog/author/javierdelapuente) 13 January 2026 [### Canonical and NVIDIA BlueField-4: a foundation for zero-trust high performance infrastructure](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-and-nvidia-bluefield-4-a-foundation-for-zero-trust-high-performance-infrastructure) At NVIDIA GTC Washington D.C., Canonical is pleased to support the arrival of the NVIDIA BlueField-4 – the newest generation of the data processing unit (DPU) family. NVIDIA... [Benjamin Ryzman](https://canonical.com/blog/author/benjaminryzman) 28 October 2025