1. OpenStack
networking
SDN controller improvement

2. Outline
● Current Project Status
○ Plugins for third party controller
○ Plugins as SDN controler
● OpenStack networking as a SDN controller
● Requirements

3. OpenStack Networking status

4. OpenStack Networking status
● 2 plugins categories of operating modes:

5. OpenStack Networking status
● 2 plugins categories of operating modes:
○ plugin controlling a third party SDN controller which
handles the “control plane”
■ examples: NVP, Midonet, Ryu, Big Switch, NEC,
PLUMgrid

6. OpenStack Networking status
● 2 plugins categories of operating modes:
○ plugin controlling a third party SDN controller which
handles the “control plane”
■ examples: NVP, Midonet, Ryu, Big Switch, NEC,
PLUMgrid
○ plugin acting as a SDN controller
■ examples: LinuxBridge, OpenVSwitch, Cisco,
Brocade

7. OpenStack networking
as a SDN controller

8. OpenStack networking
as a SDN controller
● Controller SDN constraints:
○ Control a data plane

9. OpenStack networking
as a SDN controller
● Controller SDN constraints:
○ Control a data plane
○ High availability and scalability

10. OpenStack networking
as a SDN controller
● Controller SDN constraints:
○ Control a data plane
○ High availability and scalability
○ Exploitability

11. Requirements

12. Requirements
● Control a data plane
○ Merge the "data plane drivers"?

13. Requirements
● Control a data plane
○ Merge the "data plane drivers"?
○ Provide control plane for overlays?

14. Requirements
● Control a data plane
● Availability and scalability

15. Requirements
● Control a data plane
● Availability and scalability
● Exploitability