Description

OVN is a network virtualization system that has been under development as
part of the Open vSwitch project over about the last two years. On this
podcast, Ben Pfaff and Russell Bryant, two major contributors to OVN,
describe OVN, its architecture, its features, focusing on features that
were added in the recent release of Open vSwitch 2.6, and some future
directions.

This episode is based on the material presented at the OpenStack Summit
in the session titled “OVN - Moving to Production.” The
summit talk was recorded and video
and slides
are available. This podcast follows the structure of the slides pretty
closely, making them a useful companion document to look at while
listening, but the episode is meant to stand alone.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• 
  Discussion of databases for OVN: ovs-dev
  list archive.


• 
  Continuous integration keynote, “Demoing the World's Largest
  Multi-Cloud CI Application”: video.
• 
  OVN SFC talk, “Delivering OpenStack NFV Service Chaining at Scale with
  Networking-SFC and Networking-OVN”: video.
• 
  Open vSwitch/OVN Git repository at Github.
• 
  Open vSwitch development
  and general
  discussion mailing lists. (You can also reach the list archives
  from these pages.)
• 
  ovn-kubernetes integration Git repository at Github.
• 
  Russell Bryant's blog.
• 
  Open vSwitch 2016 Fall Conference, to be held Nov. 7 and 8 in San Jose
  California, details,
  agenda,
  and (until Nov. 7) online
  registration.

Russell Bryant is a software developer in Red Hat's Office of the CTO.
You can find him at russellbryant.net or on
Twitter as @russellbryant.

OVS Orbit is produced by Ben Pfaff. The
intro music in this episode is Drive,
featuring cdk and DarrylJ, copyright 2013, 2016 by Alex. The bumper music is
Yeah Ant
featuring Wired Ant and Javolenus, copyright 2013 by Speck. The outro
music is Space
Bazooka featuring Doxen Zsigmond, copyright 2013 by Kirkoid. All content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Unported (CC BY 3.0) license.