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authorcsatari <gergely.csatari@nokia.com>2017-02-10 10:01:22 +0100
committerGergely Csatari <gergely.csatari@nokia.com>2017-02-15 10:51:36 +0000
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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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+Connection between different OpenStack regions or cloud instances
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Description
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+There should be an API to manage the infrastructure networks between two
+OpenStack regions or instances.
+
+The following figure (:numref:`instances-architecture`) shows the architecture
+of the most relevant OpenStack components in multi instance OpenStack
+environment.
+
+.. figure:: images/instances-architecture.png
+ :name: instances-architecture
+ :width: 50%
+
+The functionality behind the API depends on the underlying network providers (SDN
+controllers) and the networking setup.
+(For example both OpenDaylight and ONOS have an API to add new BGP neighbors.)
+
+OpenStack Neutron should provide an abstracted API for this functionality what
+calls the underlying SDN controllers API.
+
+Derived Requirements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Possibility to define a remote and a local endpoint
+- As in case of cells the nova-api service is shared. It should be possible
+ to identify the cell in the API calls
+
+Northbound API / Workflow
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+- An infrastructure network management API is needed
+- API call to define the remote and local infrastructure endpoints
+- When the endpoints are created Neutron is configured to use the new network.
+
+Data model objects
+++++++++++++++++++
+- local and remote endpoint objects (Most probably IP addresses with some
+ additional properties, like local or remote Autonomus Systems (AS)).
+
+Current implementation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Current OpenStack implementation provides no way to set up the underlay
+ network connection.
+ OpenStack Tricircle project [TRICIRCLE]_
+ has plans to build up inter datacenter L2 and L3 networks.
+
+Gaps in the current solution
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ An infrastructure management API is missing from Neutron where the local and
+ remote endpoints of the underlay network could be configured.