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diff --git a/docs/development/ovn-for-nfv.rst b/docs/development/ovn-for-nfv.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ae9c99 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/development/ovn-for-nfv.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +OVN4NFV Project +=============== +OVN complements the existing capabilities of OVS to add native support for +virtual network abstractions such as virtual L2 & L3 overlays, L3 routing +and security groups. Instead of treating ovsdb and Open Flow actions +separately, OVN provides simpler interface for managing virtual networks. + +Besides the simpler interface, OVN takes care of transforming simple flow +rules of virtual network to complex Open Flow rules on the Open vSwitches +involved. The Openstack project networking-ovn implements the neutron api +using OVN. As part of ovn4nfv project we would like to enable OVN along +with the openstack neutron plugin networking-ovn as a deployable network +control component in the OPNFV build. This would make it easier to manage +virtual networks and push more of network intelligence to the edge onto the +compute nodes. Since OVN has inherent support for containers, this would +allow OPNFV to orchestrate container VNFs. + +Further this will make the controller architecture much more simpler and +scalable by placing the controller (ovn-controller) next to the Open vSwitch. + +OVN for OPNFV at OPNFV Design Summit, Nov, 2015 + - https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/events/ovn-opnfv-summit2015.pdf + |