[openstack-dev] [neutron] Deprecating old security groups code / RPC.

Miguel Ángel Ajo majopela at redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 14:10:50 UTC 2014


Sorry, adding [neutron] to the subject.

Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Thursday, 4 de December de 2014 at 15:06, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote:

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> During Juno, we introduced the enhanced security groups rpc (security_groups_info_for_devices) instead of (security_group_rules_for_devices),  
> and the ipset functionality to offload iptable chains a bit.
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> Here I propose to:
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> 1) Remove the old security_group_info_for_devices, which was left to ease operators upgrade  
> path from I to J (allowing running old openvswitch agents as we upgrade)
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> Doing this we can cleanup the current iptables firewall driver a bit from unused code paths.
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> I suppose this would require a major RPC version bump.
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> 2) Remove the option to disable ipset (now it’s enabled by default and seems  
> to be working without problems), and make it an standard way to handle “IP” groups  
> from the iptables perspective.
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> Thoughts?,
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> Best regards,
> Miguel Ángel Ajo
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