Technologies for deploying dynamic underlay networks in cloud computing infrastructures

One or more computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that in response to being executed cause a network controller to:

• receive, from a cloud operating system of the cloud computing infrastructure, a tenant network creation request that indicates a tenant network is to be created in the cloud computing infrastructure for a new tenant of the cloud computing infrastructure;
• identify network criteria for the tenant network based on the received tenant network creation request;
• identify physical resources of the cloud computing infrastructure usable to create the tenant network based on the identified network criteria;
• provision an underlay network to support the tenant network based on the identified physical resources;
• and
• transmit information of the underlay network to the cloud operating system, wherein the information of the underlay network is usable to create a cloud visible overlay network associated with the underlay network.

A method for deploying dynamic underlay networks in a cloud computing infrastructure, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a network controller in the cloud computing infrastructure, a tenant network creation request from a cloud operating system of the cloud computing infrastructure, wherein the tenant network creation request indicates to the network controller to create a new tenant network in the cloud computing infrastructure;
• identifying, by the network controller, network criteria for the new tenant network based on the received tenant network creation request;
• identifying, by the network controller, physical resources of the cloud computing infrastructure usable to create the new tenant network based on the identified network criteria;
• provisioning, by the network controller, an underlay network to support the new tenant network based on the identified physical resources;
• and
• transmitting, by the network controller, information of the underlay network to the cloud operating system, wherein the information of the underlay network is usable to create a cloud visible overlay network associated with the underlay network.

A network controller for deploying dynamic underlay networks in a cloud computing infrastructure, the network controller comprising:

• an application interface circuit to receive a tenant network creation request from a cloud operating system of the cloud computing infrastructure, wherein the tenant network creation request indicates to the network controller to create a new tenant network in the cloud computing infrastructure;
• means for identifying network criteria for the new tenant network based on the received tenant network creation request;
• means for identifying physical resources of the cloud computing infrastructure usable to create the new tenant network based on the identified network criteria;
• and
• means for provisioning an underlay network to support the new tenant network based on the identified physical resources,
• means for transmitting information of the underlay network to the cloud operating system, wherein the information of the underlay network is usable to create a cloud visible overlay network associated with the underlay network.