[openstack-dev] [Quantum] REST-based ML2 MechanismDriver

Kyle Mestery (kmestery) kmestery at cisco.com
Thu Jun 6 13:44:40 UTC 2013


This sounds great Irena. Bob is going to set something up, possibly not next week due to some limitations on his availability. We'll make sure to include you in those meetings as well!

On Jun 6, 2013, at 2:44 AM, Irena Berezovsky <irenab at mellanox.com> wrote:

> I will be glad to be included in ML2 sub team meetings.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyle Mestery (kmestery) [mailto:kmestery at cisco.com] 
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> On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Luke Gorrie <luke at tail-f.com> wrote:
> 
>> Howdy!
>> 
>> Great work Bob & all on getting the ML2 plugin code onto master, exciting stuff :-)))
>> 
>> I want to use the upcoming ML2 MechanismDriver to make REST requests to an external system. Is anybody else interested in this too and planning related work? If so then perhaps we could join forces.
>> 
>> I am flexible with respect to the exact REST API design. In principle I would favor something as close as possible to the raw MechanismDriver API.
>> 
>> I am doing this work to integrate with the Tail-f Network Control System (NCS). The blueprint for this work was approved this morning for Havana. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/tailf-ncs
>> 
>> NCS will be customized to support the REST API that we develop on the OpenStack side. So there are no legacy/compatibility constraints on how the REST API needs to look from my perspective.
>> 
>> I am guessing that the maintainers of the BigSwitch plugin would be interested, being as that is also REST-based and may want to be updated to fit into ML2?
>> 
>> So please give me a ping if you are interested in MechanismDriver+REST, or point me at where I can find people who are :-)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -Luke
>> 
> Hi Luke, Bob is organizing some sub team meetings around ML2 going forward, we'll be sure to include you in those! Right now, there are 4 blueprints open for continued ML2 work. I'm not aware of anyone doing a controller MechanismDriver yet, so you may have just signed up to be the first!
> 
> Looking forward to having you a part of the ML2 team!
> 
> Kyle
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