[Openstack-docs] Icehouse installation guide support for neutron plug-ins

Gauvain Pocentek gauvain.pocentek at objectif-libre.com
Sat Apr 5 14:40:48 UTC 2014


Hi,

Le 2014-04-03 18:42, Matt Kassawara a écrit :
> Around inception of the installation guide networking updates
> project, the neutron developers decided to replace the Open vSwitch
> (OVS) plug-in with the Modular Layer 2 (ML2) plug-in in Icehouse.
> However, issues with the migration process from OVS to ML2 apparently
> reverted this decision late in the development cycle. According to the
> blueprint, RC1 includes the first rendition of the migration process:
> 
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ml2-deprecated-plugin-migration
> [1]
> 
> Given proximity to the final release date, shall we support both OVS
> and ML2 in the installation guide and reconsider removing OVS in Juno?
> 

Keeping OVS around means additional testing and maintenance to make 
sure it works. And from what I can see on Ubuntu, the packages default 
to ML2+OVS, and configuring OVS only is not that easy (I managed to make 
it work but with a few "workarounds").

I am in favor of keeping ML2 only.

Gauvain



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