OVSDB: Lithium: Release Review
- Manish Kumar Barnwal
Contents
- 1 Project Name
- 2 Features
- 2.1 OpenDaylight Features
- 2.2 Standards
- 3 Non-Code Aspects (user docs, examples, tutorials, articles)
- 4 Architectural Issues
- 5 Security Considerations
- 6 Quality Assurance (test coverage, etc)
- 7 End-of-life (API/Features EOLed in Release)
- 8 Bugzilla (summary of bug situation)
- 9 Standards (summary of standard compliance)
- 10 Schedule (initial schedule and changes over the release cycle)
Project Name
Open vSwitch Database Integration Project
Features
Lithium marked the third release of the OVSDB project. The release delivers increased code and testing coverage, improved network virtualization integration with OpenStack and an MDSAL-based OVSDB plugin.
better parity with OpenStack Neutron
native DVR service including SNAT, external gateway and floating IP support
more robust and stable solution
increased code quality, unit, integration and system test coverage
MDSAL OVSDB southbound plugin
OpenDaylight Features
odl-ovsdb-schema-openvswitch: Schema wrapper that represents http://openvswitch.org/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5.pdf
odl-ovsdb-schema-hardwarevtep: Schema wrapper that represents http://openvswitch.org/docs/vtep.5.pdf
odl-ovsdb-library: Contains Schema-independent library that is a reference implementation for RFC 7047.
odl-ovsdb-openstack: OpenDaylight and OpenStack integration using OVSDB and Neutron to support network virtualization.
odl-ovsdb-southbound-api: YANG model for OVSDB