Today, OpenStack admins can define network entities and VM-level policies in Neutron, but not on the Tenant / Network level.
The lack of tenant / network level traffic control at the WAN gate can result in high network bills, by allowing cross-site traffic to grow unchecked.
This problem is further exacerbated by the the increase in SD-WAN deployments and the growing popularity of hybrid (private/public) cloud solutions - both of which rely on WAN traffic.
We introduce a new open source project for defining WAN Traffic Control as a Service in Neutron. This project is designed as a Neutron service plugin, extending the API with new capabilities.
We also introduce a software reference implementation based on Linux TC that requires zero configuration at the underlay network layer.
Attendees should expect to learn about the new WAN Traffic Control as a Service project, and the new possibilities it brings for further development by the community and vendors.
