[Openstack-docs] Icehouse installation guide support for neutron plug-ins

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Sat Apr 5 17:45:44 UTC 2014


On 04/05/2014 04:40 PM, Gauvain Pocentek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 2014-04-03 18:42, Matt Kassawara a écrit :
>> Around inception of the installation guide networking updates
>> project, the neutron developers decided to replace the Open vSwitch
>> (OVS) plug-in with the Modular Layer 2 (ML2) plug-in in Icehouse.
>> However, issues with the migration process from OVS to ML2 apparently
>> reverted this decision late in the development cycle. According to the
>> blueprint, RC1 includes the first rendition of the migration process:
>>
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ml2-deprecated-plugin-migration
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> Given proximity to the final release date, shall we support both OVS
>> and ML2 in the installation guide and reconsider removing OVS in Juno?
>>
> 
> Keeping OVS around means additional testing and maintenance to make sure
> it works. And from what I can see on Ubuntu, the packages default to
> ML2+OVS, and configuring OVS only is not that easy (I managed to make it
> work but with a few "workarounds").
> 
> I am in favor of keeping ML2 only.

I agree,

Andreas
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