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-----Original Message-----
From: Fabrice Grelaud <fabrice.grelaud at u-bordeaux.fr>
Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date: February 17, 2016 at 09:02:49
To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject:  [openstack-dev] [openstack-ansible] network question and documentation

> Hi,
>  
> after a first test architecture of openstack (juno then upgrade to kilo), installed  
> from scratch, and because we use Ansible in our organization, we decided to deploy our  
> next openstack generation architecture from the project openstack-ansible.
>  
> I studied your documentation (very good work and very appreciate, http://docs.openstack.org/developer/openstack-ansible/[kilo|liberty]/install-guide/index.html)  
> and i will need some more clarification compared to network architecture.
>  
> I'm not sure to be on the good mailing-list because it 's dev oriented here, for all that,  
> i fear my request to be embedded in the openstack overall list, because it's very specific  
> to the architecture proposed by your project (bond0 (br-mngt, br-storage), bond1 (br-vxlan,  
> br-vlan)).
>  
> I'm sorry about that if that is the case...
>  
> So, i would like to know if i'm going in the right direction.
> We want to use both, existing vlan from our existing physical architecture inside openstack  
> (vlan provider) and "private tenant network" with IP floating offer (from a flat network).  
>  
> My question is about switch configuration:
>  
> On Bond0:
> the switch port connected to bond0 need to be configured as trunks with:
> - the host management network (vlan untagged but can be tagged ?)
> - container(mngt) network (vlan-container)
> - storage network (vlan-storage)
>  
> On Bond1:
> the switch port connected to bond1 need to be configured as trunks with:
> - vxlan network (vlan-vxlan)
> - vlan X (existing vlan in our existing network infra)
> - vlan Y (existing vlan in our existing network infra)
>  
> Is that right ?
>  
> And do i have to define a new network (a new vlan, flat network) that offer floatting IP  
> for private tenant (not using existing vlan X or Y)? Is that new vlan have to be connected  
> to bond1 and/or bond0 ?
> Is that host management network could play this role ?
>  
> Thank you to consider my request.
> Regards
>  
> ps: otherwise, about the documentation, for great understanding and perhaps consistency  
> In Github (https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible), in the file openstack_interface.cfg.example,  
> you point out that for br-vxlan and br-storage, "only compute node have an IP on this bridge.  
> When used by infra nodes, IPs exist in the containers and inet should be set to manual".  
>  
> I think it will be good (but i may be wrong ;-) ) that in chapter 3 of the "install guide: configuring  
> the network on target host", you propose the /etc/network/interfaces for both controller  
> node (br-vxlan, br-storage: manual without IP) and compute node (br-vxlan, br-storage:  
> static with IP).

Hi Fabrice,

Has anyone responded to your questions yet?

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Ian Cordasco