I am also not a fan of dnsmasq and would like to point out that other non-OpenStack projects are also moving to kea DHCP[1]. So this makes a lot of sense to me. Also, if you have a DNS resolver need (something dnsmasq also provides), I am happy to talk about using Unbound instead. I know at least one downstream OpenStack distro that is using it (grin). Michael [1] https://www.netgate.com/blog/improvements-to-kea-dhcp On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 11:42 AM Jay Faulkner <jay@gr-oss.io> wrote:
HI all,
Myself and CID from the GR-OSS team are planning on, community willing, adding a new, more reliable DHCP backend to both Ironic and Neutron. Right now, that looks like kea, but we are less concerned about the specific project as much as we are about it not being dnsmasq ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/2026757 ).
Given neither of us are incredibly familiar with the Neutron codebase, we wanted to get buy in and some general implementation advice.
As a note; if desired this can happen outside PTG, but this DHCP conversation is a PTG topic for Ironic so I thought this would be a good place to do it.
-- Jay Faulkner