Great update, Dan. Thank you! -jay
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Dan Wendlandt <d...@nicira.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > At the last OpenStack meeting, Vish asked me to send out an update on the > Quantum project. Here's some info: > Quantum is a virtual network service, targeted at Openstack. If you're not > familiar with Quantum, please see: > - http://wiki.openstack.org/Quantum > - http://launchpad.net/quantum > - http://www.slideshare.net/danwent/quantum-diablo-summary > During the Diablo timeframe, we've been focused on creating a standalone > Quantum service with a tenant API to create networks and attach devices to > those networks. This work has progressed at a rapid pace. A beta is > already available and we'll be finalizing our first official release, > including a v1.0 version of the API, at the end of Diablo. See: > https://code.launchpad.net/quantum > The Quantum service has a pluggable backend. More plugins are in the works, > but currently there are plugins for two classes of switches: > - Open vSwitch switches that perform software switching on any Linux-based > systems (KVM and XenServer) > - Cisco UCS and Nexus based systems leveraging 802.1qbh-enabled > NICs (merged today, congrats team!) . > For those interested in something hands-on, I created a variant of Vish's > nova.sh script and a simple automated demo you can do with an Ubuntu host > using the Open vSwitch plugin: http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumOVSDemo > Other major areas of focus for Diablo-4 release and beyond: > - Finalization of v1.0 API > - Integration with Nova + Melange (IPAM) using a new QuantumManager class > in Nova > - GUI for network configuration based on OpenStack Dashboard > - API Extensions that expose advanced network capabilities (e.g., ACLs, > QoS, Netflow) > - Jenkins integration. > - Better documentation (yay!) > We're planning on proposing Quantum for OpenStack incubation at next week's > PPB meeting. > For those interested in the gory details of Quantum design + project > discussions, you can join the public netstack email > list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack (archives: > https://lists.launchpad.net/netstack/). > For everyone else, we'll do a better job of periodically communicating > progress to the community at large. Hopefully we'll be approved for > incubation in which case we'll provide an update at the end of each main > openstack meeting with the other incubated projects :) > Dan > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dan Wendlandt > Nicira Networks, Inc. > www.nicira.com | www.openvswitch.org > Sr. Product Manager > cell: 650-906-2650 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
