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Previously, if an external network's AIM L3Outside referenced a VRF that did not exist, validation would fail with a message that an exception occurred, but with no indication of what caused the problem. Now, the backtrace is logged when an exception is caught, a specific error is reported if any of the resources needed for the NetworkMapping DB record are missing, and a very specific error is reported if the external VRF is missing. Also, a requirement on acitoolkit is added to test-requirements.txt to ensure that acitoolkit's noiro-lite branch is used. This is intended to avoid acitoolkit's master branch's requirement on deepdiff, whose latest version no longer supports python 2. Similarly, the configuration files for the legacy-group-based-policy-dsvm-aim CI job are modified to explicitly install the noiro-lite branch of acitoolkit. Change-Id: I7955f8e77633d9662a629c8c0628b128be3ae546
Group Based Policy (GBP) provides declarative abstractions for achieving scalable intent-based infrastructure automation.
GBP complements the OpenStack networking model with the notion of policies that can be applied between groups of network endpoints. As users look beyond basic connectivity, richer network services with diverse implementations and network properties are naturally expressed as policies. Examples include service chaining, QoS, path properties, access control, etc.
GBP allows application administrators to express their networking requirements using a Group and a Policy Rules-Set abstraction. The specifics of policy rendering are left to the underlying pluggable policy driver.
GBP model also supports a redirect operation that makes it easy to abstract and consume complex network service chains and graphs.
Checkout the GBP wiki page for more detailed information: <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GroupBasedPolicy>
The latest code is available at: <http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/group-based-policy>.
GBP project management (blueprints, bugs) is done via Launchpad: <https://launchpad.net/group-based-policy>
For help using or hacking on GBP, you can send mail to <mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>.
Acronyms used in code for brevity:
- PT: Policy Target
- PTG: Policy Target Group
- PR: Policy Rule
- PRS: Policy Rule Set
- L2P: L2 Policy
- L3P: L3 Policy
- NSP: Network Service Policy
- EP: External Policy
- ES: External Segment
- SC: Service Chain
- SP: Service Profile