Translations:ReleaseNotes/Juno/71/en
OpenStack Network Service (Neutron)
Key New Features
- DB migration refactor and new timeline
- Distributed Virtual Router Support (DVR)
- Full IPV6 support for tenant networks
- High Availability for the L3 Agent
- ipset support for security groups in place of iptables (this option is configurable)
- L3 agent performance improvements
- Migration to oslo.messaging library for RPC communication.
- Security group rules for devices RPC call refactoring (a huge performance improvement)
- New Plugins supported in Juno include the following:
- A10 Networks LBaaS driver for the LBaaS V1 API
- Arista L3 routing plugin
- Big Switch L3 routing plugin
- Brocade L3 routing plugin
- Cisco APIC ML2 Driver (including a L3 routing plugin).
- Cisco CSR L3 routing plugin
- Freescale SDN ML2 Mechanism Driver
- Nuage Networks ML2 Mechanism Driver
- SR-IOV capable NIC ML2 Mechanism Driver