GETTING STARTED WITH DOCA FLOW

NVIDIA® DOCA™ unlocks the potential of the NVIDIA BlueField® data processing unit (DPU) to offload, accelerate and isolate workloads in data centers. With DOCA, developers can program the data center infrastructure of the future by creating software-defined, cloud-based, DPU-accelerated services with zero-trust protection to meet the growing performance and security demands of today’s data centers.

At the core of this innovation is DOCA Flow, an API paramount to building agile execution pipelines in hardware. The library provides developers with a powerful toolkit for building sets of pipes, each characterized by compliance criteria, monitoring capabilities, and a set of actions. These pipes can be interconnected, allowing packages to seamlessly transition from one pipe to another after executing pipe-defined actions.

Enroll in this course to embark on a journey of DOCA Flow programming personified by developing an “ARP Storm Control” application. This application prevents network outages resulting from broadcast storms by skillfully forming a DOCA Flow pipeline that quells malicious broadcast network activity while preserving the integrity of well-managed traffic.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand the key role that DOCA Flow occupies in the broader DOCA and DPU landscape.
• Create an offloaded virtual network function (VNF) application.
• Acquire the skills to accelerate network applications through the DPU’s embedded switch.

Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of networking fundamentals to optimize your participation in the course.