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OpenStack and OVN: What's New with OVS 2.7

Networking

OVN is a virtual networking project built by the Open vSwitch community.
OpenStack can make use of OVN as its backend networking implementation
for Neutron. OVN and its Neutron integration are ready for use in OpenStack
deployments.

This talk will cover the latest developments in the OVN project and the
latest release, part of OVS 2.7. Enhancements include better performance,
improved debugging capabilities, and more flexible L3 gateways.
We will take a look ahead the next set of things we expect to work on for
OVN, which includes logging for OVN ACLs (security groups), encrypted
tunnels, native DNS integration, and more.

We will also cover some of the performance comparison results of OVN
as compared with the original OVS support in Neutron (ML2/OVS). Finally,
we will discuss how to deploy OpenStack with OVN or migrate an existing
deployment from ML2/OVS to OVN.

What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn the latest developments about OVN and how they may be used for OpenStack Networking deployments.

Monday, May 8, 2:00pm-2:40pm (6:00pm - 6:40pm UTC)

Hynes Convention Center - Level Three - MR 304/306

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Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Tags: Neutron Upstream

Russell Bryant

Red Hat, Principal Software Engineer

Russell is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He was on the OpenStack Technical Committee from Fall 2012 until Fall 2016 and was elected to serve on the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Russell has been contributing to the development of OpenStack since the Fall of 2011. His most significant contributions around OpenStack have... FULL PROFILE

Ben Pfaff

VMware

Ben Pfaff is a lead developer of the Open vSwitch project and led the development effort of the OpenFlow reference implementation. He was a founding employee at Nicira and is currently at VMware. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2007. Ben has worked in free and open source software projects, including Debian and GNU, for over 20 years. Ben is a Senior Member of ACM and a Fellow... FULL PROFILE

Justin Pettit

VMware

Justin Pettit is an engineer at VMware's Networking & Security BU. Justin joined VMware through Nicira acquisition and was a founding employee at Nicira Networks. He was one of the original authors of the OpenFlow Standard, working on both the specification and reference implementation. Justin was an early developer of the NOX OpenFlow controller platform. He is one of the lead developers... FULL PROFILE