On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:09:10AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:26:37AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: >> >> Open vSwitch does not have native integration with Docker. >> >> INSTALL.Docker explains how Open vSwitch can be integrated >> >> with docker non-natively. >> >> >> >> ovs-docker is a helper script to add network interfaces to >> >> docker containers and to attach them as ports to OVS bridge. >> >> This script can be further enhanced as we understand different >> >> use cases. >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com> >> > >> > Docker supports Linux bridge and it seems to me that it >> > should also be changed to support Open vSwitch, not the >> > other way around. >> > >> > I did a quick hack sort of replacing brctl commands with >> > ovs-vsctl commands to see if it works here: >> > https://github.com/fleitner/docker-ovs/tree/v1.2.0-ovs >> > >> > I am quite sure there are other forks doing something like that. >> > >> > My concern is with long term support/maintenance of this >> > because as soon as OVS support gets integrated to Docker, >> > we would have to keep supporting this method anyway. >> I did not intend to support this long term. My plan is to update the >> INSTALL.Docker if/when there is native integration of Docker with Open >> vSwitch. > > What about environments built on top this script? > > That's why I am suggesting to have a separate project for it > and not really attach to OVS repo. The patch has been committed a couple of weeks ago. We have previously made features redundant. e,g., bridge compatibility. The current script provides a way to integrate with Open vSwitch till a native integration is available, so I see it as a plus.
> > At least, the documentation should warn about the future. I agree. I will send out a patch. > > fbl > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
