[openstack-dev] Using custom IPAM with OpenStack

Mathieu Rohon mathieu.rohon at gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 09:08:37 UTC 2013


Hi,

As I understood Juniper/contrail developers have also troubles with IPAM.
The Hooks you are talking about in Nova, is handled with service
plugin in Neutron. May be there is a place to implement an IPAMaaS
service, or DHCPaaS?



On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Lari Partanen <lari.partanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! So _generate_ip @ neutron.db.db_base_plugin_v2.py is one of the
> methods I need to modify. Is there something like this
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/devref/hooks.html in Neutron for
> extending its methods or do I need to make a patch
> if I wish to distribute my changes?
>
> Regards,
> Lari
>
> Hi,
>
> You can take a look at the patches in this blueprint:
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/configurable-ip-allocation
>
> There was also a bp created earlier to talk to an external IPAM:
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/neutron-ipam
>
> Thanks,
> ~Sumit.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Lari Partanen <lari.partanen at
> gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> our company is using an IPAM solution that we would like to integrate with
>> OpenStack. The idea would be that when instances request IP addresses they
>> would get a free IP address from our IPAM which would be then allocated to
>> them and when instances are deleted the IP addresses are released from the
>> IPAM.
>>
>> I've gone through the source code but I'm having hard time figuring out
>> how should I proceed with the integration. I would be grateful on
>> information about what methods I should be looking for in the source code
>> and how to extend them properly.
>>
>> Thanks!
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