18:03:15 <Sukhdev> #startmeeting networking_l2gw 18:03:16 <openstack> Meeting started Mon Mar 2 18:03:15 2015 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is Sukhdev. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 18:03:17 <openstack> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 18:03:19 <openstack> The meeting name has been set to 'networking_l2gw' 18:03:27 <Sukhdev> #topic: Agenda 18:03:39 <Sukhdev> #link: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/L2Gateway 18:03:59 <Sukhdev> #topic: Announcements 18:04:40 <Sukhdev> I do not have any specific announcement - except that feature freeze for Kilo is this week 18:04:52 <Sukhdev> this does not impact us 18:05:00 <maruti> agreed 18:05:39 <Sukhdev> anybody has any announcement - before we dive into status 18:06:13 <Sukhdev> We have tons of merged patches - see here https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:merged+project:stackforge/networking-l2gw,n,z 18:06:49 <Sukhdev> Only handful are left which are also very close to completion - see here https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:stackforge/networking-l2gw,n,z 18:07:21 <maruti> Armando reviewed some patches pretty fast and gave comments on which people are working currently. l2gw client is in good shape. REST APIs are in good shape. devstack scripts are committed. Pending work items: batch scripts and test automation - alok and ashish packaging - koteswara and vikas documentation - maruti and selva 18:07:22 <Sukhdev> #topic: Project Status 18:07:45 <Sukhdev> ah ha you beat me to it - maruti, I was going to ask you to provide status :-) 18:07:48 <maruti> Armando reviewed some patches pretty fast and gave comments on which people are working currently. l2gw client is in good shape. REST APIs are in good shape. devstack scripts are committed. 18:08:21 <maruti> Pending work items: batch scripts and test automation - alok and ashish 18:08:24 <maruti> packaging - koteswara and vikas 18:08:33 <maruti> documentation - maruti and selva 18:09:03 <Sukhdev> Hats off to the team this is tremendous progress 18:09:24 <maruti> agreed. 18:09:59 <Sukhdev> maruti - I wanted to dive into some of the details so that others can start to test this feature 18:10:05 <maruti> I am going to submit a patch which will bridge l2gw plugin and the ML2 plugin 18:10:29 <maruti> sure Sukhdev 18:10:55 <Sukhdev> you mean when a network is added to L2-GW, generating create_port requests to ML2? 18:11:32 <maruti> yes 18:12:14 <Sukhdev> This will be similar to adding network interface to router - similar port_create request is generated 18:13:01 <maruti> Reference: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/153774/ 18:13:59 <Sukhdev> Thanks for the link 18:14:08 <maruti> When an event occurs in ML2, l2gw service plugin should get notified so that the service plugin can write into OVSDB tables. 18:14:39 <Sukhdev> and, vice-a-versa, right? 18:14:55 <maruti> vice-versa not required 18:15:07 <Sukhdev> can you elaborate why not? 18:15:28 <maruti> if there are any changes in OVSDB tables, l2gw service plugin writes into OVSDB tales and also sends RPCs to the L2 agents 18:15:42 <maruti> if there are any changes in OVSDB tables, l2gw service plugin writes into neutron tables and also sends RPCs to the L2 agents 18:16:13 <maruti> so that L2 agents can create tunnels to the gateways 18:16:29 <Sukhdev> then you are saying, it will bypass the ML2 plugin 18:17:06 <maruti> yes 18:18:02 <maruti> that patch set is under review. https://review.openstack.org/#/c/158655/ 18:18:46 <Sukhdev> makes sense - thanks for clarification 18:19:08 <Sukhdev> Anybody on the channel have any question on this before we move to next topic? 18:20:06 <Sukhdev> maruti: you mentioned devstack scripts are done 18:20:34 <Sukhdev> can one enable L2-GW service by using devstack? 18:20:38 <maruti> yes 18:20:53 <Sukhdev> do you have link handy to the patch? 18:21:07 <maruti> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/158395/ 18:21:20 <Sukhdev> #link: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/158395/ 18:21:40 <selvakumar> there is readme.rst under repo 18:21:41 <selvakumar> https://github.com/stackforge/networking-l2gw/blob/master/devstack/README.rst 18:22:16 <Sukhdev> selvakumar: Thanks 18:22:58 <Sukhdev> #topic: Verification of the existing code 18:23:32 <Sukhdev> I had an off-line chat with Armado and asked when can folks pull the code on their platforms and start to test 18:24:04 <Sukhdev> He indicated we are very close - I see the patches are almost ready 18:24:40 <Sukhdev> I have asked couple of people in Arista to look into this code and test on Arista HW 18:25:04 <Sukhdev> We are in a wait state for a green signal to go ahead - as soon as the code is ready to go 18:25:24 <Sukhdev> Having said that, I want to ask you guys a question 18:25:32 <maruti> Once these patches are merged: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/158655/ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/156494/ and the ML2 plugin patching with L2gw service plugin, then it should work. 18:25:55 <Sukhdev> yup - understood 18:26:08 <Sukhdev> the question I want to ask you is as follows: 18:26:49 <Sukhdev> For a new person, who wants to play with L2 Gateway service (and has not been involved in these meetings) - 18:27:14 <Sukhdev> Shall we write up something for a quick ramp up steps? 18:27:55 <Sukhdev> For example, selvakumar you mentioned about the README for the devstack 18:28:20 <maruti> That is the plan. However, we have some reviews in progress on which we are working daily and want to get them merged so that end-to-end will work. 18:29:01 <maruti> The next would be the documentation. 18:29:09 <Sukhdev> understood - that is what I meant by "green light" 18:29:23 <Sukhdev> we have a project wiki https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/L2-GW 18:29:30 <maruti> Yes 18:29:39 <Sukhdev> we can add a section to it for quick ramp up 18:29:50 <maruti> agreed 18:30:11 <Sukhdev> Cool - let me know if I can help in this regards 18:30:34 <maruti> sure Sukhdev 18:30:41 <Sukhdev> As soon as the code is ready, we would want more and more folks to start testing on various platforms 18:30:56 <maruti> That will be great 18:31:03 <Sukhdev> This will authenticate the implementation and help improve the quality 18:32:44 <Sukhdev> Anything else you want to add to give the rest of team update?> 18:33:34 * Sukhdev waiting 18:33:40 <maruti> After the pending reviews are merged, the third party CI on which alok and ashish are working on will also start functioning. 18:33:41 <selvakumar> Sukhdev - you can take an action item for document on me and Maruti. 18:34:57 <Sukhdev> #action: selvakumar and maruti to document the users guide to deploy the L2-Gateway service 18:35:14 <Sukhdev> selvakumar: Thanks 18:35:29 <Sukhdev> #topic: Open Discussion 18:36:14 <Sukhdev> I think we have a excellent status update of the project - want to see if there is anything in general anybody wants to bring up 18:36:30 * Sukhdev waiting 18:37:18 <Sukhdev> selvakumar, maruti: I did not check the votes on our presentation 18:37:30 <Sukhdev> please forward the link to others to vote on it 18:38:29 <Sukhdev> Folks we are done. 18:38:40 <Sukhdev> Thanks for joining. 18:38:40 <selvakumar> Sukhdev , we have already forwarded to our entire HP Networking section for requesting vote 18:38:59 <Sukhdev> selvakumar: cool - likewise, I did the same 18:39:16 <selvakumar> thanks Sukhdev 18:39:21 <Sukhdev> We will meet in two weeks - hopefully, we will have documentation 18:39:34 <selvakumar> yes sure 18:39:52 <maruti> I am not sure where can we check the votes 18:39:59 <Sukhdev> selvakumar, maruti : as soon as you get to the documentaion, please ping me - we do not have to wait, if we can move on it sooner 18:40:13 <maruti> sure Sukhdev 18:40:51 <Sukhdev> Folks, will see you here in two weeks. 18:41:01 <Sukhdev> bye 18:41:10 <Sukhdev> #endmeeting