Overview
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) customers who own a private cloud sometimes may run part of their workload on a public cloud. However, migrating the workload to the public cloud requires working with a different interface and learning different ways to set up connectivity and define security policies. Meeting these challenges can result in increased operational cost and loss of consistency.
Cisco ACI can use Cisco Cloud Network Controller to extend a multi-site fabric to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud public clouds.
What Cisco Cloud Network Controller Is
Cisco Cloud Network Controller is a software component of Cisco APIC that can be deployed on a cloud-based virtual machine (VM). Cisco Cloud Network Controller provides the following features:
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Provides an interface that is similar to the existing Cisco APIC to interact with the Google Cloud public cloud.
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Automates the deployment and configuration of cloud connectivity.
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Configures the cloud router control plane.
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Translates Cisco ACI policies to cloud native policies.
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Discovers endpoints.