[Openstack] metadata api with Quantum and provider networks

Jānis Ģeņģeris janis.gengeris at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 21:04:30 UTC 2012


Here is the output, with few details.

# quantum router-show router_vlan1501
+-----------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field                 | Value                                |
+-----------------------+--------------------------------------+
| admin_state_up        | True                                 |
| external_gateway_info |                                      |
| id                    | 3c7383c7-7759-4db6-ba5b-19e754280cb8 |
| name                  | router_vlan1501                      |
| status                | ACTIVE                               |
| tenant_id             | 7246a7e9d61f42b8a644bc1551a2a396     |
+-----------------------+--------------------------------------+

# quantum net-show vlan1501
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Field                     | Value                                |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| admin_state_up            | True                                 |
| id                        | c2161824-a439-40e5-8809-5599f80df2fe |
| name                      | vlan1501                             |
| provider:network_type     | vlan                                 |
| provider:physical_network | default                              |
| provider:segmentation_id  | 1501                                 |
| router:external           | False                                |
| shared                    | False                                |
| status                    | ACTIVE                               |
| subnets                   | af6eac1e-dfec-49a0-bfc2-3fbf9a7063b3 |
| tenant_id                 | 7246a7e9d61f42b8a644bc1551a2a396     |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+

# quantum router-gateway-set 3c7383c7-7759-4db6-ba5b-19e754280cb8
c2161824-a439-40e5-8809-5599f80df2fe
Bad router request: Network c2161824-a439-40e5-8809-5599f80df2fe is not a
valid external network

I assume this happens because 'router:external' if False, when switching it
to True the above command succeeds. But then if I want to switch back later
(with no ports attached, no routers, even no subnets), I get this:

quantum net-update vlan1501 --router:external False
External network e011d68b-6abd-43a4-b6c3-9dbadf5344ee cannot be updated to
be made non-external, since it has existing gateway ports

Anyway, I have set 'router:external' to True for 'vlan1501' network, set
the gateway for my newly created quantum router(router_vlan1501) with
'router-gateway-set' as a result quantum have created router ns with single
interface from my configured provider network 'vlan1501' with default
gateway set to the one of the 'vlan1501' nets attached subnet.

But now if I boot the VM with '--nic=<vlan1501_id>' option, I get VM with
default gateway set to networks('vlan1501') gateway(not the freshly created
router gateway, am I missing something in configs?), which is the same as
the created routers gateway. Another thing if I switch to newly created
'router_vlan1501' namespace I can't actually ping the external gateway,
that is there as a default gw for the 'vlan1501' net.

So my thinking is I need to change the default gw in VM to the virtual
router?

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Dan Wendlandt <dan at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Jānis Ģeņģeris
> <janis.gengeris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Dan Wendlandt <dan at nicira.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Jānis Ģeņģeris <
> janis.gengeris at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > When using provider networks in Quantum, where should the metadata
> >> > service
> >> > rule mapping (e.g. 169.254.169.254:80 ->
> metadata_server:metadata_port)
> >> > must
> >> > be set?
> >> >
> >> > For example, for floating IPs l3-agent handles this, but for provider
> >> > networks router is not used. I tried to set custom iptables rule for
> >> > this,
> >> > but have a hard time understanding where to set it, as there is
> >> > openvswitch
> >> > and namespaces.
> >> >
> >> > I'm using provider network configuration with VLANs.
> >>
> >> You actually could use the Quantum L3 router as your gateway even if
> >> VMs are on a provider network, but I suspect your question is actually
> >> more along the lines of: if I want my gateway to be a physical router
> >> not managed by Quantum, how do I does the DNAT rule for metadata get
> >> applied?  In this case, you need to apply the DNAT rule manually to
> >> the physical router, which I believe is the same as if you were using
> >> flat networking with Nova with a physical router.
> >
> > Adding the rule in physical router is not a good idea, because then the
> > configuration of the OpenStack crosses the actual software/server border
> > into network equipment, than can add to complexity later.
>
> Yes, its hard to have it both ways...  if you want everything done
> automatically via software, I'd suggest using the quantum router as
> the gateway, not an external physical router.
>
> >
> > I tried to add provider network to quantum router, and the quantum CLI
> was
> > rejecting it.
> > AFAIK router-interface-add is for internal networks, and
> router-gateway-set
> > is also failing.
>
> Can you post what you've run and what the resulting error was?  In
> terms of the L3 API, quantum shouldn't care whether a network is
> provider or not for router-interface-add.  Perhaps this is a
> permissions issue?
>
> Dan
>
>
> >
> > Which CLI command to use for adding provider network to existing quantum
> > router?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> There may also be a more complex solution achievable via quantum in
> >> which the provider creates a quantum router with an interface on the
> >> provider network, VMs are each given a host route to route traffic
> >> destined for 169.254.169.254/32 to this quantum router IP, rather than
> >> the physical default gateway, and this quantum router performs the
> >> DNAT.  However, its probably much easier to just apply this rule to
> >> your physical router.
> >
> > No, this is no good.
> >>
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > --janis
> >> >
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> >> > Post to     : openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> >> > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Dan Wendlandt
> >> Nicira, Inc: www.nicira.com
> >> twitter: danwendlandt
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > --janis
>
>
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dan Wendlandt
> Nicira, Inc: www.nicira.com
> twitter: danwendlandt
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>



-- 
--janis
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20121008/067fb160/attachment.html>


More information about the Openstack mailing list