Before diving in, I want to highlight the people responsible for this new optimization, who are Stefan Hoffman, Yatin Karel and Sean Mooney. One of the major pain points in OpenStack is live migration, particularly regarding connectivity immediately after the virtual machine resumes on the destination node. In clusters with mission-critical workloads, it is imperative […]
Last week I had a customer with an issue in an OpenStack deployment running with ML2/OVN. Randomly, when creating a virtual machine, the Nova server returned a timeout during the VIF plugin. It took us some time to discover that the IP address assigned to the new port was already assigned to a rogue Logical_Switch_Port […]
One symptom of narcissism is to make self-referring quotes; thus this is how I’ll start this post. Previously in this fantastic blog, we talked about the high availability router gateway ports in OVN. In this post we briefly commented that the gateway Logical Router Ports are scheduled across the gateway chassis, using any of the […]
The first thing you will notice reviewing the code of this library is a common pattern: Terry Wilson, one of the fathers of the creature. It has many other contributors, but he is the main maintainer. Thanks! This library provides a Python native implementation to access to the Open vSwitch database, using the OVSDB management […]