neutron/releasenotes/notes/external-port-scheduling-a5419ac51d863087.yaml
Lucas Alvares Gomes 770914f98d [OVN] Enhanced external port scheduling
This patch introduces a new configuration for OVN CMS Options called
"enable-chassis-as-extport-host". This configuration can be used
by ML2/OVN to identify nodes that are eligible for scheduling OVN's
external ports.

Prior to this patch, external ports were always scheduled on centralized
networked nodes tagged with the "enable-chassis-as-gw" flag in the OVN
CMS Options but, when it comes to deploying OpenStack on OpenShift
requiring services such as the OVN Metadata Agent or DHCP Agent to
serve those external ports and running them on control plane nodes are
not ideal. This is where this patch comes handy allowing these ports to
have more flexibility in where they are scheduled.

The patch is also backward compatible and if the new configuration is
not present on the OVN CMS Options, ML2/OVN will continue to schedule
the external ports on nodes configured with the previous configuration
like always.

Documentation will be updated on a follow up patch.

Closes-Bug: 2037294
Change-Id: Ic46d847e3aebfe543d5a7ab49d18d1f1abf1342e
Signed-off-by: Lucas Alvares Gomes <lucasagomes@gmail.com>
2023-11-14 08:54:59 +00:00

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features:
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A new ovn-cms-options option called ``enable-chassis-as-extport-host``
is now recognized by ML2/OVN and is used to identify nodes that are
eligible for scheduling OVN's external ports. This feature is backward
compatible and if no nodes contain this new option the external
ports will continue to be scheduled using the ``enable-chassis-as-gw``
option as before.
This change also introduces a limit to the number of members for each
HA Chassis Group to 5, matching the limit of gateway router port
replicas. This is because OVN uses BFD to monitor the connectivity
of each member and having an unlimited number of members could
potentially put a lot of stress in OVN.