[openstack-dev] [nova] Exposing provider networks in network_data.json

Jim Rollenhagen jim at jimrollenhagen.com
Mon Jul 20 14:19:02 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:56:10PM +0000, Sean M. Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 02:26:32PM EDT, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> > For a little background, this patch came from code that is running in
> > production today, where we're trunking two VLANs down to the host -- it
> > isn't a theoretical use case.
> 
> Have you taken a look at the vlan transparent API extension, or are you
> using it currently?
> 
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/liberty/vlan-aware-vms.html

Yes, we're looking at it for the future, but our current code has been
in production for about a year, before this work was even being looked
at. I wonder if the best route is to defer this Nova work until the VLAN
extension is completed in Neutron, or to support both eventually.

// jim



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