[Openstack-operators] SDN for hybridcloud, does it *really* exist?

Curtis serverascode at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 17:47:56 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Starting to think refactoring my SDN world (currently just neutron
> ml2/ovs inside OpenStack) in preparation for maybe finally lighting up
> that second Region I've been threatening for the past year...
>
> Networking is always the hardest design challeng.  Has anyone seen my
> unicorn?  I dream of something the first works with neutron of course
> but also can extend the same network features to hardware out side
> openstack and into random public cloud infrastructures through VM and/or
> containerised gateways.  Also I don't want to hire a whole networking
> team to run it.
>
> I'm fairly certain this is still fantasy though I've heard various
> vendors promise the earth and stars but I'd love to hear if anyone is
> actually getting close to this in production systems and if so what
> your experience has been like.
>

Do you want to have tenants be able to connect their openstack
networks to another public clouds network using some kind of API? If
so, what are your tenant networks? vlans? vxlan?

Thanks,
Curtis.

> -Jon
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