The StarlingX networking team had their first meeting on 8/30. Weekly meetings are scheduled for Thursday at 9am Eastern.

Meeting Details are available on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Networking

 

Meeting agenda/notes are captured at:

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-networking

 

Team Meeting Agenda/Notes - Sept 20/2018

·        Neutron Blueprint Status / Next Steps

§  Merge the Segment Range Management in this spec: https://review.openstack.org/579411 

§  Also include the current API (w/o the Host Management piece) 

§  Rename to Provider Segment Range Configuration 

§  Action: Ruijing<?> to add a note to the current spec review saying we will re-work the spec based on the feedback from PTG and re-publish it. Fcst: Sept 21

§  Next Step: Ruijing<?> to re-work the spec. Time-Line: 1-2wks to have the updated spec. Fcst: Sept 28-Oct5

·        Action: Forrest to confirm the resourcing for this work

§  neutron community did not agree to move forward with this spec. The neutron spec will not be pursued any further.

§  Action: Ruijing<?> to add a note to the gerrit review and mark the review as Abandoned. Fcst: Sept 21

§  Plan is to move this functionality to the stx-nfv project

·        Use the neutron APIs from stx-nfv. Need to prototype the use of admin_state_up / admin_state_down

o   This may drive an Enhancement Request into neutron. Neutron team was open to this.

§  Next Step: Matt to write story in SB describing the requirements. 

·        After consultation with the Technical Lead for stx-nfv, he advised us to defer this work for a while as the code is undergoing churn due to containerization support.

·        We will revisit this again in a few weeks  - October 18 

§  neutron community did not agree to move forward with this spec. The neutron spec will not be pursued any further.

§  Action: Ruijing<?> to add a note to the gerrit review and mark the review as Abandoned. Fcst: Sept 21

§  Plan is to move this functionality to the stx-nfv project

·        Implement a plugin in the stx-nfv vim to do the re-scheduling

§  Next Step: Matt to capture requirements in SB. Note: This will be included in the same story as the "System Host Management" since they are closely related

§  Plan is to not pursue this spec with neutron. The corresponding gerrit review will be abandoned.

§  Action: Ruijing<?> to add a note to the review and mark the review as Abandoned. Fcst: Sept 21

§  For now, leave the patch in stx-neutron as is. This is broader than just neutron, same hooks exist in glance/cinder/etc. Need a larger discussion/decision.

§  Put on hold for now.

§  Plan is to review the current neutron logging capabilities to see if it is sufficient to diagnose issues

·        Neutron team is open to receiving Enhancement Requests if needed.

§  Action: Forrest to confirm the resourcing for this work

·        Other Neutron Upstreaming Patches - Bugs

·        stx.2018.10 Status

§  Kailun to follow up on https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1790252

·        ovs-dpdk Enhancements - stx.2019.03

§  Facing some issues <Kailun to update with details>. Steve to send output from his system.

 

Regards,

Ghada