Open stack networking_101_part-1

OpenStack Networking Introduction
Yves Fauser, System Engineer VMware NSBU
10/10/2013

© 2011 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Agenda
§  Traditional Networking - refresher
§  OpenStack integrated projects big picture
§  Why OpenStack Networking is called Neutron now
§  Networking before Neutron
§  Nova-Networking
§  Drawbacks of Nova-Networking that led to Neutron
§  OpenStack Networking with Neutron
§  Neutron Overview
§  Available Plugins
§  Neutron Demo
§  Neutron – State of the Nation

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Traditional Networking Refresher
Traditional Networking Refresher


Traditional Networking - Refresher
§  Layer 2 Network Connection à
Direct Ethernet connection with no Routing hops (e.g. 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.11)
§  Layer 3 Network Connection à
Endpoint can reach each other only through multiple routing hops
§  VLAN – A way to carve up a physical switch into multiple L2 Networks (segments)

VLAN 10

VLAN 20
Access Port
“untagged”

VLAN “Trunk” Port / “tagged”
VM VM VM VM

Hypervisor
Switch

§  Access Port – An Ethernet Port that can only access one VLAN that is statically
configured on the physical switch (no VLAN tag/id – ‘untagged’)
§  Trunk Port – An Ethernet Port that carries multiple VLANs (with VLAN tag/id –
‘untagged’) and connects to other Switches and possibly Hypervisors

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OpenStack Projects & Networking


Integrated (aka ‘Core’) projects (Grizzly release)
Dashboard
(horizon)

Network
(Neutron)

Provides UI
for other projects

Provides
network
connectivity

Block
Storage
(cinder)

Provides
volumes

Compute
(nova)

Provides
Images

Provides Authentication and
Service Catalog for other
Projects

Identity
(keystone)
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Image
repo
(glance)

Stores
Images
as
Objects

Object
Storage
(Swift)

Why is OpenStack Networking called Neutron?
§  Before June 19th 2013, OpenStack Networking was named “Quantum”,
hence all the services, APIs, CLI commands hold the name “Quantum”
§  Unfortunately there were trademark issues with the name “Quantum” (see
“Quantum corporation”), therefore all references to “Quantum” need to be
changed in all the Docs, Services Names, APIs, CLI Commands, etc.
§  The new name for OpenStack Networking is now Neutron!

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Networking before Neutron
Nova-Networking
Drawbacks of Nova-Networking that led to Neutron


OpenStack Networking before Neutron
§  Nova has its own networking service –
nova-network. It was used before Neutron
§  Nova-network is still present today,
and can be used instead of Neutron
§  Nova-network does §  base L2 network provisioning
through Linux Bridge (brctl)
§  IP Address management for
Tenants (in SQL DB)

nova-console
(vnc/vmrc)

nova-api
(OS,EC2,Admin)

nova-compute

nova-cert

Libvirt, XenAPI, etc.

Nova
DB

Hypervisor
(KVM, Xen,
etc.)

Queue

nova-metadata

nova-scheduler

§  configure DHCP and DNS
entries in dnsmasq
§  configure fw-policies and NAT
in IPTables (nova-compute)
§  Nova-network only knows 3 basic Network-Models;

nova-volume

novanetwork

§  VLAN based – Every tenant gets a VLAN, DHCP enabled

Volume-Provider
(iSCSI, LVM, etc.)

Network-Providers
(Linux-Bridge or OVS with
brcompat, dnsmasq, IPTables)

§  Flat & Flat DHCP – direct bridging of Instance to external eth. Interface
with and w/o DHCP

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novaconsoleauth

Inspired by

Nova-Networking – Drawbacks that lead to develop Neutron
§  Nova-Networking is missing an well defined API for consuming networking
services (tenant API for defined topologies and addresses)
§  Nova-Networking only allows for the 3 simple models;
Flat, Flat/DHCP and VLAN/DHCP, all of those are limited in scale and
flexibility – e.g. max. 4094 VLAN ID limit
§  Closed solution; No ability to use network services from 3rd parties and/or
to integrate with Network vendors or overcome the limitations of NovaNetwork
§  No support for:
§  Advanced OpenVSwitch features like Network Virtualization
(IP-Tunnels instead of VLANs)
§  Multiple user configurable networks per project
§  User configurable routers (L3 Devices)

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Network Virtualization Overview
Network/Server Virtualization Analogy
Network Virtualization – a technical definition
Network Virtualization – Key components


Key Concepts – Decouple, Reproduce, Automate

Application

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Workload

L2, L3, L4-7 Network Services

x86 Environment
Software
Virtual
Machine

Virtual
Machine

Virtual
Machine

Server Hypervisor

Virtual
Network

Decoupled

Requirement: x86

Virtual
Network

Virtual
Network

Network Hypervisor
Requirement: IP Transport

Hardware

General Purpose Server Hardware

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General Purpose IP Hardware

Network Virtualization – A technical definition
Network virtualization is:
§  A reproduction of physical networks:
§ 

Q: Do you have L2 broadcast / multicast, so apps do not need to be modified?

§ 

Q: Do you have the same visibility and control over network behavior?

§  A fully isolated environment:
§ 

Q: Could two tenants decide to use the same RFC 1918 private IP space?

§ 

Q: Could you clone a network (IPs, MACs, and all) and deploy a second copy?

§  Physical network location independent:
§ 

Q: Can two VMs be on the same L2 logical network, while in different physical L2 networks?

§ 

Q: Can a VM migrate without disrupting its security policies, packet counters, or flow state?

§  Physical network state independent:
§ 

Q: Do physical devices need to be updated when a new network/workloads is provisioned?

§ 

Q: Does the application depend on a feature in the physical switch specific to a vendor?

§ 

Q: If a physical device died and was replaced, would application details need to be known?

§  Network virtualization is NOT:
§ 
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Running network functionality in a VM (e.g., Router or Load-balancer VM)

What are the key components of network virtualization?!

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OpenStack Networking with Neutron
Neutron Overview
Available Plugins


OpenStack Neutron – Plugin Concept
Neutron 
API Extention"

Neutron  
Core API"

Neutron Service"
"
•  L2 network abstraction definition and management,
IP address management
•  Device and service attachment framework
•  Does NOT do any actual implementation of
abstraction

Extension API
implementation is
optional

"

Plugin API"
"
Vendor/User Plugin"
• 
• 
• 
• 

Maps abstraction to implementation on the Network (Overlay e.g. NSX or physical Network)
Makes all decisions about *how* a network is to be implemented
Can provide additional features through API extensions.
Extensions can either be generic (e.g. L3 Router / NAT), or Vendor Specific

"
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Plugins available in the market (incomplete list)
§  OVS Plugin
§  Supports GRE based Overlays, NAT/Security groups, etc.
§  Linux Bridge Plugin
§  Limited to L2 functionality, L3, floating IPs and provider networks.
No support for Overlays
§  VMware NSX (aka Nicira NVP) Plugin
§  Network Virtualization solution with centralized controller + OpenVSwitch (Details
follow in the next few slides)
§  Cisco UCS / Nexus 5000 Plugin
§  Provisions VLANs on Nexus 5000 switches and on UCS Fabric-Interconnect as
well as UCS B-Series Servers network card (palo adapter)
§  Can use GRE and only configure OVS, but then there’s no VLAN provisioning
§ 

NEC and Ryu Plugin
§  Openflow Hop-by-Hop implementations with NEC or Ryu controller

§  Other Plugins from Midokura, Juniper (Contrail), Big Switch, Brocade, etc. are in
various stages of development (see links below for details)

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Neutron Demo
It’s Demo time! … (Sorry, no Connection L)


Neutron – State of the Nation – What came with Grizzly
§  Multiple new Plugins: Big Switch, Brocade VCS, Midokura, Hyper-V,
Plumgrid, ML2
§  Great Horizon integration
(topology map, NIC selection, router mgmt.)
§  LBaaS reference Implementation using HAProxy
§  New Metadata implementation that allows for
overlapping IP space

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Neutron – State of the Nation – What will be in Havana
§  More services integration;
§  Integrating external Firewalls
§  More Load-Balancing with external Load-Balancers instead of
HAProxy reference implementation
§  VPN reference implementation
§  Improved support for
§  IPv6 (feature parity with IPv4), bare metal PXE boot
§  More and new vendor plugins
§  Nova-Networking migration options
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/havana

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You can find a recording of this session, as well as the
second part (technical Deep Dive) on the OpenStack
Foundation Youtube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ascEICz_WUY&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgrHcZI2nOlD022p2TG8F2_b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=CRx43Iou1V8&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgrHcZI2nOlD022p2TG8F2_b

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