On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:52:28 +0000
Jason Kölker <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks a lot for the details!

I've pushed the patch. 

> Sure! In order to create a true ovs manager where the manager listens
> on the socket for OVSDB connections from clients. This allows you to
> use `ovs-vsctl set-manager ssl:ip:port` so vswitch on the hypervisor
> does not have to listen on a socket for connections from a remote
> vsctl command. It also allows you to react to OVSDB events on the fly
> (like port creation) and read data from OVSDB (for example the neutron
> port uuid or something that the hypervisor sets) and proactively
> calculate a flow set and push it down instead of waiting for traffic
> from the VIF/PIF.
> 
> 
> At Rackspace we're using it in our Floating IP deployment (still in
> development) where a bank of workers share the NAT'ing. For deployment
> all the user has to do it register the SSL certs from vswitch with the
> controller, and run set-manager on it. From there the
> manager/controller will configure the rest of vswitch through OVSDB
> including setting the openflow controllers and creating tunnel ports,
> bridges and patch-ports.
> 
> 
> The only delta between our internal version and this version is that
> our internal version also supports SSL cert fingerprint auth, so a
> complete ca deployment is not needed. In order to opensource this
> portion I removed that since its a bit hacky at the moment and isn't
> self contained. If there is interest I can work on cleaning it up so
> its usable and applicable to both the Controller and OVSDB portions
> and send a patch.
> 
> 
> Happy Hacking!
> 
> 7-11
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