[openstack-dev] Reg : Security groups implementation using openflows in quantum ovs plugin

Kanthi P pavuluri.kanthi at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 09:31:12 UTC 2013


Hi All,

Thanks for the response!
Amir,Mike: Is your implementation being done according to ML2 plugin

Regards,
Kanthi


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Mike Wilson <geekinutah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kanthi,
>
> Just to reiterate what Kyle said, we do have an internal implementation
> using flows that looks very similar to security groups. Jun Park was the
> guy that wrote this and is looking to get it upstreamed. I think he'll be
> back in the office late next week. I'll point him to this thread when he's
> back.
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <
> kmestery at cisco.com> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Kanthi P <pavuluri.kanthi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > We are planning to implement quantum security groups using openflows
>> for ovs plugin instead of iptables which is the case now.
>> >
>> > Doing so we can avoid the extra linux bridge which is connected between
>> the vnet device and the ovs bridge, which is given as a work around since
>> ovs bridge is not compatible with iptables.
>> >
>> > We are planning to create a blueprint and work on it. Could you please
>> share your views on this
>> >
>> Hi Kanthi:
>>
>> Overall, this idea is interesting and removing those extra bridges would
>> certainly be nice. Some people at Bluehost gave a talk at the Summit [1] in
>> which they explained they have done something similar, you may want to
>> reach out to them since they have code for this internally already.
>>
>> The OVS plugin is in feature freeze during Icehouse, and will be
>> deprecated in favor of ML2 [2] at the end of Icehouse. I would advise you
>> to retarget your work at ML2 when running with the OVS agent instead. The
>> Neutron team will not accept new features into the OVS plugin anymore.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kyle
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/session-videos/presentation/towards-truly-open-and-commoditized-software-defined-networks-in-openstack
>> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/ML2
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Kanthi
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