On 06/19/2018 11:07 PM, Daan Hoogland wrote:
> I like this initiative, and here comes the big but even though I myself
> might think it is not valid; Basic zones are there to give a simple start
> for new users. If we can give a one-knob start/one page wizard for creating
> a shared network in advanced zone with security groups and userdata, great.
That would be a UI thing, but it would be a matter of using VLAN
isolation and giving in VLAN 0 or 'untagged', because that's basically
what Basic Networking does.
It plugs the VM on top of usually cloudbr0 (KVM).
If you use vlan://untagged for the broadcast_uri in Advanced Networking
you get exactly the same result.
> And I really fancy this idea. let's make ACS more simple by throwing at as
> much code as we can in a gradual and controlled way :+1:
I would love to. But I'm a real novice when it comes to the UI though.
So that would be something I wouldn't be good at doing.
Blocking Basic Networking creation is a few if-statements at the right
location and you're done.
Wido
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> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:57 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We (PCextreme) are a big-time user of Basic Networking and recently
>> started to look into Advanced Networking with VLAN isolation and a
>> shared network.
>>
>> This provides (from what we can see) all the features Basic Networking
>> provides, like the VR just doing DHCP and UserData while the Hypervisor
>> does the Security Grouping.
>>
>> That made me wonder why we still have Basic Networking.
>>
>> Dropping all the code would be a big problem for users as you can't
>> simply migrate from Basic to Advanced. In theory we found out that it's
>> possible by changing the database, but I wouldn't guarantee it works in
>> every use-case. So doing this automatically during a upgrade would be
>> difficult.
>>
>> To prevent us from having to maintain the Basic Networking code for ever
>> I would like to propose and discuss the matter of preventing the
>> creation of new Basic Networking zones.
>>
>> In the future this can get us rid of a lot of if-else statements in the
>> code and it would make testing also easier as we have few things to test.
>>
>> Most of the development also seems to go in the Advanced Networking
>> direction.
>>
>> We are currently also working on IPv6 in Advanced Shared Networks and
>> that's progressing very good as well.
>>
>> Would this be something to call the 5.0 release where we simplify the
>> networking and in the UI/API get rid of Basic Networking while keeping
>> it alive for existing users?
>>
>> Wido
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