Network/Meetings

The OpenStack Networking Team (Neutron) holds public meetings in #openstack-meeting. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Apologies for Absence

March 3rd mlavalle won't attend meeting. Tempest api tests latest status update below
Edgar Magana (emagana) - Customer meeting

Agenda for Next Neutron Team Meeting

Announcements / Reminders

--markmcclain (talk) 20:18, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Icehouse-3 merge deadline is end of day tomorrow (March 4th). Late and/or incomplete proposals are being deferred to Juno.
Icehouse-3.
Daylight Savings Reminders

Bugs

Let's get in the habit of checking Elastic Recheck and Gate Success Rate at least every day.

Critical Open Bugs currently we have 4.
Stable branch is still having stability problems in the test runs.

Docs (emagana)

Network Documentation Wiki (Refactoring of the installation guide)
- https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/InstallGuideChanges
BPs associated:

HA Neutron - Proposal
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-docs/2014-January/003689.html

Current list of bugs against neutron docs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bugs?field.tag=neutron

List of High Priority Tickets:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1251096 - Edgar Magana - Fix Released
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1252131 - Edgar Magana - WIP
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1260129 - Summer Long - WIP
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1273412 - Edgar Magana - WIP

Nova Parity (beagles)

Updated Monday, March 3, 2014 20:34 UTC

The title "nova/neutron interop" might be more appropriate at the moment. These reviews need close attention and are aimed at improving/resolving race scenarios at VM boot time:

https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/nova+branch:master+topic:bp/admin-event-callback-api,n,z

Aaron's reviews are still out there as well!

Neutron Tempest (mlavalle)

Full Tempest Test Update (salv-orlando)
- ML Thread for Full Tempest
Tempest cores reviewing and approving api tests more actively:
- Patchsets merged between 2/25 and 3/2
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/74744 Jun Xie (test create router setting tenant_id)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/73789 Dong Liu (test more attributes for routers operation)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/69829 Nanya Patel (json and xml client refactoring for security group operations)
- On 3/3 some patchsets ((3 or 4) for api tests are listed as abandoned. mlavalle will follow up with owners to see if they plan to continue with them.
- Patchsets merged between 2/17 and 2/24
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/67210 Henry Gessau (Network API framework: default to ipv4, add ipv6 tests)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65120 Miguel Lavalle (lbaas agent scheduler)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/67741 Miguel Lavalle (Neutron Extra DHCP Options API test)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66143 Emilien Macchi (api metering labels and rules)
- In review cycle:
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63723/ Ann Kamyshnikova (api floating ip)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/61118/ Ann Kamyshnikova (api lbaas)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63627/ yfried (scenario floating ip's)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/58697/ Elena Ezhova (scenario lbaas)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/55146/ yfried (scenario network connectivity)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62962/ salv-orlando (make router creation for tenant isolation optional)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/60008/ Evgeny Fedoruk (Extending quota support for neutron LBaaS entities)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/50542/ ChenZheng (Test for the neutron api with provider extension)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63625/ QianLin
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63999/2 Ann Kamyshnikova (external network extension)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/64271 Elena Ezhova (api binding extended attributes for ports)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65515 Joris Roovers (VPNaaS scenario test)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65350 Joris Roovers (VPNaas API test enhancement)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66259 Miguel Lavalle (Allowed Address Pair API test)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66854 Joris Roovers (Network Scenario Tests Directory Restructuring)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/67312 Edgar Magana (Add test for subnet gateway IPv4 and IPv6)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66921 Sukhdev Kapur (Test all attributes in network)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/67547 Dane LeBlanc (Add API test for create/delete/update port with 2 IP addresses)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66541 Ann Kamyshnikova (api LBaaS admin operations)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65943 Ann Kamyshnikova (api LBaaS complete coverage)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66796 Elena Ezhova (api. Increase coverage of VIP and health monitor testing)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/68626 Nayna Patel (api L3 agent schduler)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66921 Sukhdev Kapur (api networks shared, other tenants, delete with subnet, create port with no ip)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/69561 Nayna Patel (api security groups update)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/71251 Ann Kamyshnikova (api: Verify more information in floating ip tests(part2))
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65744 Emilien Macchi (api: fwaas)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66454 Sylvain Afchain (api: ExtraRoute)
  - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/68597 Nanya Patel (dhcp agent scheduler)

API (salv-orlando)

No report

L3 (carl_baldwin)

See Meetings/Neutron-L3-Subteam for detail.

Team meeting on Thursdays at 1500 UTC.
- Discussed DVR, HA Router which are in progress.
- Beginning work to prepare blueprints for Juno.
  - Dynamic routing
  - Fixing/enabling DNS lookup of instance hostnames.
- Bring other potential blueprints to the discussion.
  - decentralized-snat, l3-high-availability active/active, router-port-forwarding
HA Routers
- Patches are submitted. Needs review.
DVR
- DVR meeting is still going on.
- Documentation on agent design for L2 (ML2) and L3 changes is forthcoming.
  - DVR-L2-Agent Blueprint
L3 Agent consolidation (deferred from Icehouse)
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/57627/

IPv6 (sc68cal)

Two new attributes for Subnets for IPv6 configuration - core input appreciated.
Add support for IPv6 attributes to the DCHP agent

ML2 (mestery/rkukura)

Weekly Meetings/ML2 are held, please attend if interested!
- Tracking status of open BPs, including new drivers - owners should try to attend
Migration tool BP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ml2-deprecated-plugin-migration
- High priority, in review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/76533/
Three generic BPs needed to support SR-IOV PCI passthrough in review:
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ml2-binding-profile - merged
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ml2-request-vnic-type - merged
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/vif-details (also for VIF security) - merged
Two bug fixes for port binding will effect mechanism drivers:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1276395 - partial fix in review: https://review.openstack.org/76363
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1276391 - in progress
- Detailed proposal discussed at http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-February/026344.html
Proposed patch to ML2 to move away from providernet extension into the multi-provider extension with arbitrary attributes
- Need to get Neutron core input on this.
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/37893/
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-December/021117.html

Special Topic: SSL (markmcclain)

Defer to Juno?

Group Policy (mestery)

Weekly meeting here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Neutron_Group_Policy
- Continuing to make progress on the API patches thanks to SumitNaiksatam.
- Making progress on the DB object model code thanks to banix.
- Will implement Group Policies as new Core Plugin initially
- Team is deciding on best implementation approach (e.g. new core plugin vs. ML2 plugin with service plugin)

VPN (nachi)

SSL-VPN
- API patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/58897/
- Agent https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70274/
- How to test ssl-vpn https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/VPNaaS/SSLVPN/HowToUse
- API specification https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/VPNaaS/SSLVPN
STF for VPN https://review.openstack.org/#/c/41827/
Doc bugs
- Manual https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1284301
- API https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-site/+bug/1284302

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FWaaS (snaiksat)

Progress made on reviews:

Service Type frame work patch - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/60699 ( garyduan )
Service Insertion Context, and Firewall insertion: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62599 (RajeshMohan)
Service Insertion Context Client and CLI - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/74290/
Service/Application Objects to configure FWaaS rules - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/67784 (yisun)

Pending:

Turning FWaaS on in the gate - awaiting direction on this

SridarK has done investigation and posted results: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Quantum/FWaaS/Testing

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-December/023217.html - would like to get the opinion of the team if this is a good time to do it.