Re: [Rdo-list] Neutron-openswitch-agent configuration workaround in RDO Juno/Kilo and now in Liberty
Matt Kassawara <mkassawara(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Several releases ago, neutron deprecated and removed the monolithic
OVS
and Linux bridge plug-ins. During the deprecation cycle, the installation
guide changed the neutron instructions to use ML2 instead of the
monolithic OVS plug-in. However, the defunct configuration files
(plugins/openvswitch/ovs_neutron_plugin.ini and
plugins/linuxbridge/linuxbridge_conf.ini) lingered until the Liberty
release. The combination of migrating to ML2 and referencing
configuration files from the monolithic plug-ins (especially OVS with
"plugin" in the file name) caused significant confusion with our audience
that already struggles with neutron and installations in general. Some
distributions and deployment tools moved configuration for the OVS and
Linux bridge agents into the ml2_conf.ini file and changed the agent init
scripts to read it. At the time, implementing this approach in the
installation guide seemed like the best solution until neutron resolved
the file name/location problem in Liberty.
Agreed the naming in neutron was unfortunate. I believe it stayed the way
it was for a while because it was not clear on first sight how to handle it
in a backwards compatible way [in the end, we just renamed and left
compatibility considerations to distributions.]
Ihar