1) The document discusses assembling a VPN in the cloud service using OpenStack and OpenDaylight to automate the provisioning of virtual network functions and IPsec tunnels on demand. 2) Key components include using Facebook for peer selection, spinning up VNF instances using OpenStack, and configuring IPsec tunnels between peers using OpenDaylight and REST APIs. 3) The system was able to automatically provision and establish IPsec VPN tunnels in a few days, demonstrating the potential of software-defined networking and network function virtualization technologies to simplify and accelerate network service creation.