Deploying OVN on Windows with OpenStack and Kubernetes, with Alessandro Pilotti and Alin Balutoiu from Cloudbase Solutions

Alessandro is CTO of Cloudbase Solutions, a company focused on cloud

computing interoperability and the main contributor of all the OpenStack

Windows and Hyper-V components in Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Ceilometer and

Heat since the Folsom release. Alin is a developer at Cloudbase who

describes himself as an Open Source enthusiast and a passionate Python

developer at heart.

Slides for this talk are available in PDF

format.

This episode is a talk that Alessandro and Alin gave at OpenStack Boston

during the Open vSwitch Open Source Day on May 10, with the following

abstract:

Current Windows datapath development aids users and simplifies

networking deployments. One of the improvements brings Linux Bridges

(OVS bridges) mentality under Windows. Recent development also allows

for OVN to work together with the Windows datapath. This session will

cover how it can be achieved on Windows under Hyper-V as well. Among

other topics, we will cover how to set up OVN using DevStack and add a

Windows node and how to debug Windows-specific problems, with a demo.

In addition, one of the recent and interesting integration of OVN is

Kubernetes. This helps users to deploy containers over both public and

private clouds. Cloudbase Solutions recently added a PoC (proof of

concept) integration for Windows. This allows Windows workloads to be

deployed under the same cluster. We will emphasize on the advantages

that can be achieved using this type of approach. We will explain how

to set up an environment including a Windows node and play a

prerecorded demo.

The demos may be of less interest than the rest of the talk because no

video is available. If you want to skip over them, they run from 8:27 to

13:06 and from 20:56 to 28:03.

Alessandro previously appeared on OVS Orbit way back in Episode 1: Porting OVS to Hyper-V.

OVS Orbit is produced by Ben Pfaff. The

intro music in this episode is Drive,

featuring cdk and DarrylJ, copyright 2013, 2016 by Alex. The bumper

music is Yeah Ant

featuring Wired Ant and Javolenus, copyright 2013 by Speck. The outro

music is Space

Bazooka featuring Doxen Zsigmond, copyright 2013 by Kirkoid. All

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