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Meetings/Neutron blueprint ovs-firewall-driver

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Revision as of 18:35, 14 December 2013 by Amir-sadoughi (talk | contribs) (Meeting Dec 16, 2013)

Discussion for <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ovs-firewall-driver>

Meeting Dec 16, 2013

  • Purpose restatement
  • Design decisions
  • Overview of prototype
    • all security group flows on integration bridge
    • currently all on table 0, thinking about multi-table setup
    • prototype tested on flat network setup; should work on other network types as-is since the tunnel OVS flows just pass the data to the integration bridge
    • still a WIP: barely functional
      • adding IPv6 flows
      • adding multiple ports in range: debating trying out port bitmask or N flows for N ports?
      • TODO unit/integration tests (integration tests help is always appreciated)
  • Miscellaneous items:
    • ovs_neutron_agent issues:
      • (1) firewall invoked before agent does anything in C[R]UD operations
        • need to at least extract VLAN provisioning out before firewall invocation (to have correct OVS action on ALLOW path)
      • (2) agent removes all flows at initialization (as well as deletes all vif's flows on port_bound)
    • lacking ovs atomicity like iptables-restore has (all connections might be dropped/allowed): one possibility is to have a dynamic multi-table hotswap
    • neutron-rootwrap-xen-dom0 bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1185872/comments/3, https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1259748
    • table, priority, cookie, actions coordination: ok for now to be hard-coded in Neutron, but will need an abstraction layer in the future possibly