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

Mike Wilson geekinutah at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 16:23:26 UTC 2013


The current implementation is fairly generic, the plan is to get it into
the ML2 plugin.

-Mike


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Kanthi P <pavuluri.kanthi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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