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Neutron/VPNaaS/Brocade Vyatta VPNaaS Plugin

Overview:

The Brocade Vyatta VPN plugin provides VPNaaS solution using Brocade Vyatta vRouter VM running as a Neutron router. The plugin implements IPSec Site-to-Site tunnel to connect tenant private networks to remote networks using vRouter VM.

The plugin contains two parts. Vyatta VPN service-driver that interacts with neutron-server's vpn service-plugin and Vyatta VPN device-driver which is bundled with neutron-l3-agent. Both these components need to be configured correctly for the VPN functionality to work.

Neutron L3 agent's Vyatta VPN device-driver component is the one that will invoke the Vyatta vRouter REST APIs for the below CRUD APIs as and when determined by the VPNaaS plugin.

1. create / delete ike policy

2. create / delete ipsec policy

3. create / delete vpn-service policy

4. create / delete ipsec-site-connection

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Block Diagram

   +----------------------+                  +----------------------+
   |    Neutron Server    |                  |   Neutron L3 Agent   |
   |                      |                  |                      |
   |                      |                  |                      |
   | +------------------+ |                  | +------------------+ |
   | |       VPN        | |                  | |    VPN Agent     | |
   | |  Service Plugin  | |                  | +------------------+ |
   | +------------------+ |                  | |   Vyatta VPN     | |
   | |   Vyatta VPN     | |        RPC       | |  Device Driver   | |
   | | Service Driver   | + <--------------> | |                  | |
   +-+------------------+-+                  +-+--------+---------+-+
                                                        |
                                                        |
                                                        | REST API
                                                        |
                                               +--------v---------+
                                               |                  |
                                               |                  |
                                               |  Vyatta vRouter  |
                                               |                  |
                                               |                  |
                                               |                  |
                                               |                  |
                                               +------------------+


Configuration

1. Refer to link https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Brocade_Vyatta_L3_Plugin for Vyatta vRouter L3 plugin configuration.

2. Edit Neutron configuration file /etc/neutron/neutron.conf to specify Vyatta vRouter L3 plugin and Vyatta VPN plugin service-driver

  service_plugins = neutron.services.l3_router.brocade.vyatta.vrouter_neutron_plugin.VyattaVRouterPlugin,neutron_vpnaas.services.vpn.plugin.VPNDriverPlugin
  [service_providers]
  service_provider = VPN:vyatta:neutron_vpnaas.services.vpn.service_drivers.vyatta_ipsec.VyattaIPsecDriver:default

3. Edit the /etc/neutron/vpn_agent.ini file to specify Brocade Vyatta VPN agent device-driver

  [vpnagent]
  vpn_device_driver=neutron_vpnaas.services.vpn.device_drivers.vyatta_ipsec.VyattaIPSecDriver

4. Create a launcher utility with Vyatta VPN agent entry point, preferably in a file in /usr/local/bin/vyatta-vpn-agent,

  #!/usr/bin/python
  # PBR Generated from u'console_scripts'
  
  import sys
  
  from neutron_vpnaas.cmd.eventlet.vyatta_agent import main
  
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      sys.exit(main())


5. Restart Vyatta-VPN agent.

  /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/vyatta-vpn-agent --config-file /etc/neutron/neutron.conf --config-file=/etc/neutron/l3_agent.ini --config-file=/etc/neutron/vpn_agent.ini --config-file /etc/neutron/fwaas_driver.ini --config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/brocade/vyatta/vrouter.ini
  NOTE: make sure neutron-l3-agent is not started. vyatta-vpn-agent includes both traditional L3 agent and Vyatta VPN agent functionality