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

Miguel Ángel Ajo majopela at redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 14:40:45 UTC 2014



On Thursday, 4 de December de 2014 at 15:19, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:  
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> > 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.
> > >  
> > >  
> > > Here I propose to:
> > >  
> > > 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)
> > >  
> > > Doing this we can cleanup the current iptables firewall driver a
> > > bit from unused code paths.
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> +1.
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> > >  
> > > I suppose this would require a major RPC version bump.
> > >  
> > > 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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> Is ipset support present in all supported distributions?
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It is from Red Hat perspective, not sure Ubuntu, and the others, I think
Juno was targeted to ubuntu 14.04 only (which does have ipset kernel
support and it’s tool).

Ipset was in kernel since 2.4.x, but RHEL6/Centos6 didn’t ship
the tools neither enabled it on kernel (AFAIK).  

  
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> > > Thoughts?,
> > >  
> > > Best regards, Miguel Ángel Ajo
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