OVS and OVN Explained: The Networking Stack Behind OpenStack

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Open vSwitch gave us a programmable dataplane. Open Virtual Network added a control plane. Together they power Neutron in most OpenStack clouds. This tutorial explains the architecture, compares OVS vs. OVN, and shows how to trace a packet from instance to instance in OpenStack. You’ve deployed two instances on different compute nodes. Same tenant. Same… Read more »