create OVS bridge feature

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create OVS bridge feature #196

Closed danielhb closed 8 years ago

danielhb commented 8 years ago

This issue tracks any progress (or lack of) in implementing the regular management (create, list and delete) of OVS bridges in Ginger.

@chandrureddy do you have any news in this effort? Anyone has done anything in this direction? If not I'll get it started with the backend.

potula-chandra commented 8 years ago

Hi Daniel,

So far I was looking into the use cases that we can cover in order to support the OVS bridge. I will be sharing the use cases soon in detail.

Otherwise coding not yet started so far in this area. Let us together start coding, if you have some bandwidth to contribute in this area !!!

Thanks and Regards Chandra

On 02/02/16 10:56 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:

This issue tracks any progress (or lack of) in implementing the regular management (create, list and delete) of OVS bridges in Ginger

@chandrureddy https://github.com/chandrureddy do you have any news in this effort? Anyone has done anything in this direction? If not I'll get it started with the backend

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/kimchi-project/ginger/issues/196.

danielhb commented 8 years ago

Let's do it!

What I know so far: OVS bridges relies on the 'openvswitch' package and apparently can be setup only with specific package commands such as ovs-vsctl add-br to add a bridge. This is good news: it means that we can support this feature across all distros that supports this package, and I believe fedora/ubuntu/opensuse already does.

I haven't thought much about the use cases, but I believe it will be something like

create / delete / list OVS bridges
add / remove / list interfaces that belongs to an OVS bridge
add / remove / list tags of an OVS bridge

I don't know if we need more, perhaps we don't need all these use cases .... this is something we'll need to decide before proceeding.

danielhb commented 8 years ago

In time: I've found an interesting OVS cookbook:

http://openvswitch.org/support/config-cookbooks/vlan-configuration-cookbook/

Of course that this one talks a lot about VMs and this is not our scope here, but we can see some use cases going on.

danielhb commented 8 years ago

Feature was successfully added!