On 7/15/25 4:54 PM, Tim Weippert via discuss wrote: > Hi, > > same issue here, is there some idea's to maintain the ansible > collections out of openvswitch (again)?
Hi. This collection was maintained by ansible folks without involvement of the Open vSwitch project. I'm not aware of any plans to support an ansible collection. > > regards, > tim > > On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 06:13:05PM +0000, Andrew Kesterson via discuss wrote: >> Hello. I am investigating Ansible support for the openvswitch product. I came > across this ansible galaxy collection : >> >> https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/openvswitch/openvswitch/ >> >> … but it has been deprecated since November of 2023 and will reach end of >> life >> in December 2025. >> >> I have checked the openvswitch documentation and I don’t see an alternate >> configuration management implementation for openvswitch. The only mechanism >> I see is executing commands against the >openvswitch instance. Most of the commands are writing into a persistent OVS database, which is a primary way of configuring OVS. You may do so remotely by setting up ovsdb-server to listen on a tcp port (best with ssl) as well. And it's always an option to execute ovs-vsctl and other configuration commands right from the ansible playbook, which is mostly what this ansible module was doing, IIUC, but I can be wrong. >> >> Is there an alternate Ansible collection for openvswitch that is supported, >> or any other configuration management mechanism that is supported? Open vSwitch project only supports command line utilities, OVSDB protocol (that these command line utilities are using under the hood) and OpenFlow. We also have a set of legacy network-scripts, but modern distributions are walking away from these. Third-party support for configuring OVS you can find in NetworkManager, nmstate, as well as netplan. These are supported by their own communities. Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
