On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 03:57:27PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:05:28AM +0000, Daniel Alvarez wrote: > >> This patch introduces a new type of OVN ports called "localport". > >> These ports will be present in every hypervisor and may have the > >> same IP/MAC addresses. They are not bound to any chassis and traffic > >> to these ports will never go through a tunnel. > >> > >> Its main use case is the OpenStack metadata API support which relies > >> on a local agent running on every hypervisor and serving metadata to > >> VM's locally. This service is described in detail at [0]. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Alvarez <[email protected]> > > > > Thanks a lot for working on this! My understanding is that the metadata > > API support, added to the DNS support that Numan Siddique is building, > > will complete OVN's basic OpenStack support, which will be great to > > have. > > > > Before I review this patch in detail, can you help me to understand what > > other components, in OVN or in Neutron, will be needed to make the > > overall metadata API feature work? Is it just a matter of plugging a > > bit into the Neutron networking-ovn driver, or do we need additional > > infrastructure in OVN beyond this patch? I'm trying to understand the > > full context here. > > More complete context is documented here: > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/452811/ > > Latest rendered HTML version would be: > > http://docs-draft.openstack.org/11/452811/5/check/gate-networking-ovn-docs-ubuntu-xenial/6c6b664//doc/build/html/design/metadata_api.html > > This patch is the only missing piece from OVN. networking-ovn (the > neutron-server driver) will create ports of type=localport. Then we > will write an agent that runs on each node along side ovn-controller > that will manage OVS ports and corresponding instances of haproxy.
OK, thanks, that context makes this easier to review. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
