On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:43:10AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:09:10AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:26:37AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > >> >> Open vSwitch does not have native integration with Docker. > >> >> INSTALL.Docker explains how Open vSwitch can be integrated > >> >> with docker non-natively. > >> >> > >> >> ovs-docker is a helper script to add network interfaces to > >> >> docker containers and to attach them as ports to OVS bridge. > >> >> This script can be further enhanced as we understand different > >> >> use cases. > >> >> > >> >> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com> > >> > > >> > Docker supports Linux bridge and it seems to me that it > >> > should also be changed to support Open vSwitch, not the > >> > other way around. > >> > > >> > I did a quick hack sort of replacing brctl commands with > >> > ovs-vsctl commands to see if it works here: > >> > https://github.com/fleitner/docker-ovs/tree/v1.2.0-ovs > >> > > >> > I am quite sure there are other forks doing something like that. > >> > > >> > My concern is with long term support/maintenance of this > >> > because as soon as OVS support gets integrated to Docker, > >> > we would have to keep supporting this method anyway. > >> I did not intend to support this long term. My plan is to update the > >> INSTALL.Docker if/when there is native integration of Docker with Open > >> vSwitch. > > > > What about environments built on top this script? > > > > That's why I am suggesting to have a separate project for it > > and not really attach to OVS repo. > The patch has been committed a couple of weeks ago. We have previously > made features redundant. e,g., bridge compatibility. The current > script provides a way to integrate with Open vSwitch till a native > integration is available, so I see it as a plus.
It is a plus, no questions about that. > > At least, the documentation should warn about the future. > I agree. I will send out a patch. Thanks Gurucharan! fbl _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
