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Hi Mark,

Welcome to a random discussion on the docs list! It seems like Matt K
and yourself might have had a chat at the neutron midcycle regarding the
install guide?

Regards,


Tom

On 02/07/15 23:27, Matt Kassawara wrote:
> Ask Mark McClain.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org
> <mailto:tom at openstack.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 02/07/15 22:50, Matt Kassawara wrote:
>     > With provider networks using the Linux bridge agent, neutron reaches the
>     > simplicity of nova-network. Also, the installation guide will continue
>     > to use the two-host architecture.
> 
>     Close, but not quite :) Anyway, as noted - the question is why something
>     our users want is being dropped, when it's damn simple to keep in and
>     continues to work well?
> 
>     > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org <mailto:tom at openstack.org>
>     > <mailto:tom at openstack.org <mailto:tom at openstack.org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 30/06/15 21:37, Karin Levenstein wrote:
>     >     > Guide architecture change for Liberty
>     >     > =====
>     >     > At the Neutron meetup that Matt attended last week, there was discussion
>     >     > about dropping nova-net and standardizing Neutron on Linux bridge rather
>     >     > than OVS.
>     >     > The plan that came out of the meeting: changing networking architecture
>     >     > from nova-net/Neutron OVS to: provider networking (connect VMs to
>     >     > network) with Linux Bridge; standard tenant network w/ Linux bridge and
>     >     > not OVS. All distros will have to support this.
>     >     > This will not be addressed in the install guide until the RST conversion
>     >     > is complete.
>     >     > ACTION: Matt to add this information to install guide spec so that it
>     >     > can be captured in the planning for Liberty.
>     >
>     >     Is there further discussion available around dropping a
>     >     simple-to-implement, commonly used and upstream-supported network
>     >     deployment model (nova-network)?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     Regards,
>     >
>     >
>     >     Tom
>     >
>     >
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