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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Ryu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ryu-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ryu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ryu-devel
