puppet-ovn/README.md

OVN

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with ovn
   • What ovn affects
4. Functional testing with Beaker-Rspec

Overview

Puppet module for the OVN project.

Module Description

This module has two class

1. ovn::northd to be used in machines that needs to run ovn-northd daemon
2. ovn::controller to be used in the compute nodes

Setup

Effects

ovn::northd just installs the ovn package and starts the ovn-northd serivce. ovn::controller installs ovn package and starts the ovn-controller service. Before starting ovn-controller process it updates the external_ids column of Open_vSwitch table in vswitchd ovsdb. It relies on external data for some of its parameters

• ovn_remote_ip - This should point to the url where ovn-nb and ovn-sb db server is running
• ovn_encap_ip - This should point to the ip address that other hypervisors would use to tunnel to this hypervisor.
• ovn_encap_type - Encapsulation type to be used by this controller. Defaults to geneve

Beaker-Rspec

This module has beaker-rspec tests. To run the tests on the default vagrant node:

bundle install
bundle exec rake acceptance

For more information on writing and running beaker-rspec tests visit the documentation:

• https://github.com/puppetlabs/beaker/wiki/How-to-Write-a-Beaker-Test-for-a-Module