jdiaz9 commented 5 years ago

Proposal: Create OpenStack module to support create/delete/update network segments

Author: Javier Diaz <@jdiaz9>

Date: 2018-MM-DD

Status: New
Proposal type: New OpenStack module

Motivation

A relatively new OpenStack feature known as routed provider networks requires network segments be created and tied to subnets within the same network.

Routed provider networks is quickly becoming a necessary implementation in large enterprise grade deployments where different racks/pods of compute nodes need to be added to the cloud.

A reference to routed provider networks: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/admin/config-routed-networks.html

Problems

What problems exist that this proposal will solve?

As it stands, there is no Ansible OpenStack module to assist with this. The way around this is to pass environment variables and use command. For example:

- name: create network segment for {{ network.name }}
  command: "openstack network segment create --physical-network {{ network.name }} --network-type flat --network {{ network.name }} {{ network.name }}-segment-1"

Solution proposal

Create a new module similar to the os_network and os_subnet modules that accomplishes the same functionality provided in the openstack network segment {create, delete, list, set, show} cli.

Dependencies (optional)

Requires python-openstackcli 3.14.2.

Testing (optional)

Deploy an OpenStack cloud, create network, create segments.

agaffney commented 5 years ago

Proposals are for far-reaching changes in Ansible. This should be a simple feature request in the ansible/ansible repo.