Generic Switch ML2 Neutron Driver
Project description
This is a Modular Layer 2 Neutron Mechanism driver. The mechanism driver is responsible for applying configuration information to hardware equipment. GenericSwitch provides a pluggable framework to implement functionality required for use-cases like OpenStack Ironic multi-tenancy mode. It abstracts applying changes to all switches managed by this ML2 plugin and handling local_link_information field of Neutron port.
Supported Devices
Cisco IOS switches
Huawei switches
OpenVSwitch
Arista EOS
This Mechanism Driver architecture allows easily to add more devices of any type.
OpenStack Neutron v2.0 => ML2 plugin => Generic Mechanism Driver => Device plugin
As example plugins, Cisco IOS and Linux OpenVSwitch are provided. These device plugins use Netmiko library, which in turn uses Paramiko library to access and configure the switches via SSH protocol.
Configuration
In order to use this mechanism the generic configuration file needs to be created/updated with the appropriate configuration information.
Switch configuration format:
[genericswitch:<switch name>] device_type = <netmiko device type> ip = <IP address of switch> port = <ssh port> username = <credential username> password = <credential password> key_file = <ssh key file> secret = <enable secret>
Here is an example of /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf_genericswitch.ini for the Cisco IOS device:
[genericswitch:sw-hostname] device_type = netmiko_cisco_ios username = admin password = password secret = secret ip = <switch mgmt ip address>
for the Huawei device:
[genericswitch:sw-hostname] device_type = netmiko_huawei username = admin password = password port = 8222 secret = secret ip = <switch mgmt ip address>
for the Arista EOS device:
[genericswitch:arista-hostname] device_type = netmiko_arista_eos ip = <switch mgmt ip address> username = admin key_file = /opt/data/arista_key
Additionally the GenericSwitch mechanism driver needs to be enabled from the ml2 config file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini:
[ml2] tenant_network_types = vlan type_drivers = local,flat,vlan,gre,vxlan mechanism_drivers = openvswitch,genericswitch ... ...
(Re)start neutron-server specifying this additional configuration file:
neutron-server \
--config-file /etc/neutron/neutron.conf \
--config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini \
--config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf_genericswitch.ini
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