[neutron][networking-midonet] Maintainers needed

Takashi Yamamoto yamamoto at midokura.com
Fri Sep 4 08:47:04 UTC 2020


On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 10:28 AM Sam Morrison <sorrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK have been making some good progress, I now have devstack on bionic working with midonet ml2, it should also work with 20.04 but need to confirm

nice work. thank you.

>
> Needed a couple of patches to networking-midonet to get it working [1]
>
> I also need to point it to our git repo for now until we get the upstream deb packages upgraded
>
> MIDONET_DEB_URI=http://download.rc.nectar.org.au/nectar-ubuntu
> MIDONET_DEB_SUITE=bionic
>
> The changes we have on midonet to work with bionic are now in a pull request [2]
> Once that’s merged need to find a way to build a new package and upload that to the midonet repo, Yamamoto is that something you can help with?

i'm talking to our infra folks but it might take longer than i hoped.
if you or someone else can provide a public repo, it might be faster.
(i have looked at launchpad PPA while ago. but it didn't seem
straightforward given the complex build machinary in midonet.)

>
> I’m not sure why the pep8 job is failing, it is complaining about pecan which makes me think this is an issue with neutron itself? Kinda stuck on this one, it’s probably something silly.

probably.

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> For the py3 unit tests they are now failing due to db migration errors in tap-as-a-service, l2-gateway and vpnaas issues I think caused by neutron getting rid of the liberty alembic branch and so we need to squash these on these projects too.

this thing? https://review.opendev.org/#/c/749866/

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> I can now start to look into the devstack zuul jobs.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/NeCTAR-RC/networking-midonet/commits/devstack
> [2] https://github.com/midonet/midonet/pull/9
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>
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> > On 1 Sep 2020, at 4:03 pm, Sam Morrison <sorrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 1 Sep 2020, at 2:59 pm, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 1:39 PM Sam Morrison <sorrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 1 Sep 2020, at 11:49 am, Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Sebastian, Sam,
> >>>>
> >>>> thank you for speaking up.
> >>>>
> >>>> as Slawek said, the first (and probably the biggest) thing is to fix the ci.
> >>>> the major part for it is to make midonet itself to run on ubuntu
> >>>> version used by the ci. (18.04, or maybe directly to 20.04)
> >>>> https://midonet.atlassian.net/browse/MNA-1344
> >>>> iirc, the remaining blockers are:
> >>>> * libreswan (used by vpnaas)
> >>>> * vpp (used by fip64)
> >>>> maybe it's the easiest to drop those features along with their
> >>>> required components, if it's acceptable for your use cases.
> >>>
> >>> We are running midonet-cluster and midolman on 18.04, we dropped those package dependencies from our ubuntu package to get it working.
> >>>
> >>> We currently have built our own and host in our internal repo but happy to help putting this upstream somehow. Can we upload them to the midonet apt repo, does it still exist?
> >>
> >> it still exists. but i don't think it's maintained well.
> >> let me find and ask someone in midokura who "owns" that part of infra.
> >>
> >> does it also involve some package-related modifications to midonet repo, right?
> >
> >
> > Yes a couple, I will send up as as pull requests to https://github.com/midonet/midonet today or tomorrow
> >
> > Sam
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I’m keen to do the work but might need a bit of guidance to get started,
> >>>
> >>> Sam
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> alternatively you might want to make midonet run in a container. (so
> >>>> that you can run it with older ubuntu, or even a container trimmed for
> >>>> JVM)
> >>>> there were a few attempts to containerize midonet.
> >>>> i think this is the latest one: https://github.com/midonet/midonet-docker
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 7:10 AM Sam Morrison <sorrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We (Nectar Research Cloud) use midonet heavily too, it works really well and we haven’t found another driver that works for us. We tried OVN but it just doesn’t scale to the size of environment we have.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I’m happy to help too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>> Sam
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 31 Jul 2020, at 2:06 am, Slawek Kaplonski <skaplons at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thx Sebastian for stepping in to maintain the project. That is great news.
> >>>>>> I think that at the beginning You should do 2 things:
> >>>>>> - sync with Takashi Yamamoto (I added him to the loop) as he is probably most active current maintainer of this project,
> >>>>>> - focus on fixing networking-midonet ci which is currently broken - all scenario jobs aren’t working fine on Ubuntu 18.04 (and we are going to move to 20.04 in this cycle), migrate jobs to zuulv3 from the legacy ones and finally add them to the ci again,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I can of course help You with ci jobs if You need any help. Feel free to ping me on IRC or email (can be off the list).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 29 Jul 2020, at 15:24, Sebastian Saemann <Sebastian.Saemann at netways.de> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi Slawek,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> we at NETWAYS are running most of our neutron networking on top of midonet and wouldn't be too happy if it gets deprecated and removed. So we would like to take over the maintainer role for this part.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Please let me know how to proceed and how we can be onboarded easily.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Sebastian
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> Sebastian Saemann
> >>>>>>> Head of Managed Services
> >>>>>>>
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> >>>>>>> https://netways.de | sebastian.saemann at netways.de
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ** NETWAYS Web Services - https://nws.netways.de **
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> —
> >>>>>> Slawek Kaplonski
> >>>>>> Principal software engineer
> >>>>>> Red Hat
>



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