13/Jun 2016
By mestery
1 min. read
I recently had the honor of being on the OVS Orbit podcast. Ben Pfaff has been doing these shows for a short time, and I was happy to join him and discuss open source development processes as they relate to Open Source networking projects.
One key note which Ben calls out is something I firmly believe in, and wanted to quote and paste below:
Kyle’s advice: plan ahead, research the projects, give your developers time to become comfortable with the projects, treat everyone with respect, treat everyone equally, and give back to the core of the project.
8/Jun 2016
By mestery
4 min. read
Recently, I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time building a virtual networking layer. Of course, I’m doing this using both Open vSwitch as well as OVN. I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of a few talks on OVN, so I won’t go into many details on OVN here. But I will say we’ve found it to be a great solution to solving virtual networking at scale. What I’d like to discuss here is some of the things we’re testing with regards to OVN at scale.
20/Feb 2016
By mestery
2 min. read
OVN has been evolving a lot since it was announced over a year ago. The project is being developed by many developers from VMware, Red Hat, IBM, eBay and other companies and individuals. If you haven’t had a chance to give it a try, recent work in the networking-ovn project has resulted in fairly complex and realistic deployment topology using Vagrant. I encourage you to have a look at the reference architecture referenced above, it’s very realistic and has come from actual production deployments of OVN with OpenStack.