Re: [Rdo-list] Neutron-openswitch-agent configuration workaround in RDO Juno/Kilo and now in Liberty

Matt Kassawara <mkassawara(a)gmail.com&gt; 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