[neutron][large-scale][ops] openflow rules tools

Arnaud Morin arnaud.morin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 08:51:46 UTC 2021


Hey all, we have been working on this subject recently and we pushed
this:

https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/osops/+/817715

Feel free to comment

+tag [ops][large-scale]


On 11.10.21 - 22:40, Slawek Kaplonski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For OVN with have small tool ml2ovn-trace: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/
> latest/ovn/ml2ovn_trace.html in the neutron repo https://docs.openstack.org/
> neutron/latest/ovn/ml2ovn_trace.html but that will not be helpful for ML2/OVS 
> at all.
> 
> On poniedziałek, 11 października 2021 20:05:40 CEST Arnaud wrote:
> > That would be awesome!
> > 
> > We also built a tool which is looking for openflow rules related to a tap
> > interface, but since we upgraded and enabled security rules in ovs, the tool
> > isn't working anymore.
> 
> Yes, for ML2/OVS with ovs firewall driver it is really painful to debug all 
> those OF rules.
> 
> > 
> > So before rewriting everything from scratch, I was wondering if the 
> community
> > was also dealing with the same issue.
> 
> If You will have anything like that, please share with community :)
> 
> > 
> > So I am glad to here from you!
> > Let me know :)
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Le 11 octobre 2021 17:52:52 GMT+02:00, Laurent Dumont 
> <laurentfdumont at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > >Also interested in this. Reading rules in dump-flows is an absolute pain.
> > >In an ideal world, I would have never have to.
> > >
> > >We some stuff on our side that I'll see if I can share.
> > >
> > >On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 9:41 AM Arnaud Morin <arnaud.morin at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >> 
> > >> When using native ovs in neutron, we endup with a lot of openflow rules
> > >> on ovs side.
> > >> 
> > >> Debugging it with regular ovs-ofctl --color dump-flows is kind of
> > >> painful.
> > >> 
> > >> Is there any tool that the community is using to manage that?
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks in advance!
> > >> 
> > >> Arnaud.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Slawek Kaplonski
> Principal Software Engineer
> Red Hat





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