On 1 Sep 2020, at 2:59 pm, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto@midokura.com> wrote:

hi,

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 1:39 PM Sam Morrison <sorrison@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1 Sep 2020, at 11:49 am, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto@midokura.com> wrote:

Sebastian, Sam,

thank you for speaking up.

as Slawek said, the first (and probably the biggest) thing is to fix the ci.
the major part for it is to make midonet itself to run on ubuntu
version used by the ci. (18.04, or maybe directly to 20.04)
https://midonet.atlassian.net/browse/MNA-1344
iirc, the remaining blockers are:
* libreswan (used by vpnaas)
* vpp (used by fip64)
maybe it's the easiest to drop those features along with their
required components, if it's acceptable for your use cases.

We are running midonet-cluster and midolman on 18.04, we dropped those package dependencies from our ubuntu package to get it working.

We currently have built our own and host in our internal repo but happy to help putting this upstream somehow. Can we upload them to the midonet apt repo, does it still exist?

it still exists. but i don't think it's maintained well.
let me find and ask someone in midokura who "owns" that part of infra.

does it also involve some package-related modifications to midonet repo, right?

I’m keen to do the work but might need a bit of guidance to get started,

Sam

alternatively you might want to make midonet run in a container. (so
that you can run it with older ubuntu, or even a container trimmed for
JVM)
there were a few attempts to containerize midonet.
i think this is the latest one: https://github.com/midonet/midonet-docker

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:10 AM Sam Morrison <sorrison@gmail.com> wrote:

We (Nectar Research Cloud) use midonet heavily too, it works really well and we haven’t found another driver that works for us. We tried OVN but it just doesn’t scale to the size of environment we have.

I’m happy to help too.

Cheers,
Sam

On 31 Jul 2020, at 2:06 am, Slawek Kaplonski <skaplons@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi,

Thx Sebastian for stepping in to maintain the project. That is great news.
I think that at the beginning You should do 2 things:
- sync with Takashi Yamamoto (I added him to the loop) as he is probably most active current maintainer of this project,
- focus on fixing networking-midonet ci which is currently broken - all scenario jobs aren’t working fine on Ubuntu 18.04 (and we are going to move to 20.04 in this cycle), migrate jobs to zuulv3 from the legacy ones and finally add them to the ci again,

I can of course help You with ci jobs if You need any help. Feel free to ping me on IRC or email (can be off the list).

On 29 Jul 2020, at 15:24, Sebastian Saemann <Sebastian.Saemann@netways.de> wrote:

Hi Slawek,

we at NETWAYS are running most of our neutron networking on top of midonet and wouldn't be too happy if it gets deprecated and removed. So we would like to take over the maintainer role for this part.

Please let me know how to proceed and how we can be onboarded easily.

Best regards,

Sebastian

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