[Openstack] [Openstack-operators] Reaching VXLAN tenant networks from outside (without floating IPs)

Mike Spreitzer mspreitz at us.ibm.com
Wed Jun 29 22:24:10 UTC 2016


Gustavo Randich <gustavo.randich at gmail.com> wrote on 06/29/2016 03:17:54 
PM:

> Hi operators...
> 
> Transitioning from nova-network to Neutron (Mitaka), one of the key 
> issues we are facing is how to reach VMs in VXLAN tenant networks 
> without using precious floating IPs.
> 
> Things that are outside Neutron in our case are:
> 
> - in-house made application orchestrator: needs SSH access to 
> instances to perform various tasks (start / shutdown apps, configure
> filesystems, etc.)
> 
> - various centralized and external monitoring/metrics pollers: need 
> SNMP / SSH access to gather status and trends
> 
> - internal customers: need SSH access to instance from non-openstack
> VPN service
> 
> - ideally, non-VXLAN aware traffic balancer appliances
> 
> We have considered these approaches:
> 
> - putting some of the external components inside a Network Node: 
> inviable because components need access to multiple Neutron deployments
> 
> - Neutron's VPNaaS: cannot figure how to configure a client-to-site 
> VPN topology
> 
> - integrate hardware switches capable of VXLAN VTEP: for us in this 
> stage, it is complex and expensive
> 
> - other?

You know Neutron includes routers that can route between tenant networks 
and external networks, right?  You could use those, if your tenant 
networks use disjoint IP subnets.

Regards,
Mike



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