[openstack-dev] [neutron] - Summit "The Future of VPN as a Service (VPNaaS)" summary and next steps

Kevin Benton kevin at benton.pub
Fri May 19 22:45:14 UTC 2017


Hi,

Here are the key points from "The Future of VPN as a Service" session:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/boston-vpnaas

We had a good showing of operators that have VPNaaS deployed who are
relatively happy with it and definitely want to see it continue being
developed. We have a list of 9 people who have volunteered to help keep the
repo maintained, which should be plenty to at least keep it from bit
rotting.

The assessment is in process upstream to make it part of the stadium again (
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/452032/) and it looks like we have the
community to back it.

Here are a few pain points using VPNaaS:

- Better error details need to be reported back to user (e.g. which IPsec
phase failed). Currently this requires a support call to the operator.[1]
- VPN code should load in the existing L3 agent using some kind of
extension framework so there doesn't need to be a separate subclass for
VPNaaS with its own binary.[2]
- IPv6 support needs to be covered with tests [3]
- Improved documentation [4]:
    - installation (maybe an entry in the networking guide)
    - behavior in L3 HA failover scenarios
    - several useful documentation links from user's perspective available
in etherpad

1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1692126
2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1692128
3. https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1692130
4. https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1692131

Cheers,
Kevin Benton
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