[openstack-dev] Fwd: FW: [Neutron] Group Based Policy and the way forward

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 19:35:54 UTC 2014


On 08/08/2014 12:29 PM, Sumit Naiksatam wrote:
> Hi Jay, To extend Ivar's response here, the core resources and core
> plugin configuration does not change with the addition of these
> extensions. The mechanism to implement the GBP extensions is via a
> service plugin. So even in a deployment where a GBP service plugin is
> deployed with a driver which interfaces with a backend that perhaps
> directly understands some of the GBP constructs, that system would
> still need to have a core plugin configured that honors Neutron's core
> resources. Hence my earlier comment that GBP extensions are
> complementary to the existing core resources (in much the same way as
> the existing extensions in Neutron).

OK, thanks Sumit. That clearly explains things for me.

Best,
-jay




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