[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Networking Meeting - 03/07

[Khalil, Ghada]

Meeting minutes/agenda are captured at:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-networking


Team Meeting Agenda/Notes - Mar 7/2019
- Network Patch Upstreaming -- Network Segment Range
        - Expect neutron patches to merge for Stein ms-3. Remaining neutron-lib patches will not make Stein. Analysis confirms that they are not must-have for StarlingX, so should be ok for them to merge for Train
        - problems with Neutron gates which may block stein-3 release, Neutron team is working on it

- Network Patch Upstreaming -- Neutron uwsgi switch: No plan for Stein, may make apache wsgi solution as default web server in Train cycle
        - Agreed to live with this in StarlingX until the apache solution is available in Train. This is an issue for large scale deployments

- Containerized OVS Integration
        - Code Merge Plan: Mar 15 >> Mar 22
        - openstack-helm changes merged; will need to port as a patch until the next StarlingX rebase to the latest openstack-helm code. 
              - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/641542/
              - Ghada to ask Bob to review and allow the merge
        - stx-config code is ready for review. https://review.openstack.org/#/c/633924/
              - Ghada asked Chenjie to add a W-1 to avoid merging before all the testing is complete
        - Next step is to test -- For now, I have tested several cases on VM. I will go ahead with baremetal soon. But before that, I would like the code be reviewed, to make sure no big problem.
        - Will test multi-node as well as Simplex & Duplex

- OVS process monitoring and alarming
        - Code Merge Plan: Mar 22
        - Still on hold. Expect to get back to this after OVS-DPDK Upverison testing on ~Mar 18

- OVS-DPDK Firewall
        - Code Merge Plan: Mar 22
        - Given the move to containers, the code has to be moved from the puppet manifest to the Armada manifest (minor change). Then need a re-test in the container env.

- openvswitch package Upversion
        - Code Merge Plan: Mar 22 >> Apr 5
        - Basic functional testing on 3/1 OVS-DPDK Upgrade ISO image and will test again on new image.
        - TC Feedback
              - Provider Network Connectivity TCs are no longer valid and should be removed
              - SDN: SDN does not work with the current version of ovs-dpdk, so this is out of scope of the upversion test-plan. 
                    - Need a story to enable SDN
              - QoS: TCs  need to be updated to test enabling rate-limiting thru user helm chart overrides
                    - OpenStack Docs: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/rocky/admin/config-qos.html
                    - Example StarlingX Command: 
                          -    system helm-override-update neutron openstack --set conf.plugins.ml2_conf.ml2.extension_drivers=port_security,qos
                          -    system application-apply stx-openstack


Regards,
Ghada