[openstack-dev] [Nova][Neutron] Linuxbridge as the default in DevStack [was: Status of the nova-network to Neutron migration work]

Jeremy Stanley fungi at yuggoth.org
Fri Apr 17 02:19:40 UTC 2015


On 2015-04-16 18:34:40 -0700 (-0700), Kevin Benton wrote:
[...]
> This is referring to the complexity of the API model for Neutron.
> While this is a problem that I hope to address by making things
> like shared networks more useful, it's not really relevant to this
> particular discussion because the model complexity does not
> decrease with the switch to Linux bridge.

I disagree. Complexity for the operator includes more than the API.
It also includes troubleshooting what just went wrong when your
network decided to do a headstand. As a datapoint, compare the ease
of connecting tcpdump to a bridge interface vs the ease of
connecting tcpdump to an OVS instance.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley



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