neutron/doc/source/ovn/gaps.rst
Bernard Cafarelli 4d1a7bd0bc neutron-dynamic-routing now works with OVN
With [0] the incompatibility between neutron-dynamic-routing and OVN has
been removed. Mark the BGP extensions as supported by OVN and amend the
list of gaps accordingly.

[0] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/864051

Change-Id: I773e581e8d044e87e45a10394cca25ecbe7603ad
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.. _ovn_gaps:
Gaps from ML2/OVS
=================
This is a list of some of the currently known gaps between ML2/OVS and OVN.
It is not a complete list, but is enough to be used as a starting point for
implementors working on closing these gaps. A TODO list for OVN is located
at [1]_.
* Baremetal provisioning with iPXE without Neutron DHCP agent for IPv6
The core OVN built-in DHCP server implementation does not
yet support PXE booting for IPv6. This can be achieved at
the moment if used with the Neutron DHCP agent by deploying it
on OVN gateway nodes and disabling the OVN DHCP by setting the
``[ovn]/disable_ovn_dhcp_for_baremetal_ports`` configuration option
to True.
* QoS minimum bandwidth allocation in Placement API
ML2/OVN integration with the Nova placement API to provide guaranteed
minimum bandwidth for ports [2]_. Work in progress, see [3]_
* IPv6 Prefix Delegation
Currently ML2/OVN doesn't implement IPv6 prefix delegation. OVN logical
routers have this capability implemented in [4]_ and we have an open RFE to
fill this gap [5]_.
* East/West Fragmentation
The core OVN implementation does not support east/west fragmentation. There is
no known production use-case for this feature hence we don't even have an RFE
open for it and it's not on the roadmap to be implemented.
* DHCP service for instances
ML2/OVS adds packet filtering rules to every instance that allow DHCP queries
from instances to reach the DHCP agent. For OVN this traffic has to be explicitly
allowed by security group rules attached to the instance. Note that the default
security group does allow all outgoing traffic, so this only becomes relevant
when using custom security groups [6]_. Proposed patch is [7]_ but it
needs to be revived and updated.
* DNS resolution for instances
OVN cannot use the host's networking for DNS resolution, so Case 2b in [8]_ can
only be used when additional DHCP agents are deployed. For Case 2a a different
configuration option has to be used in ``ml2_conf.ini``::
[ovn]
dns_servers = 203.0.113.8, 198.51.100.53
* IPv6 NDP proxy
The NDP proxy functionality for IPv6 addresses is not supported by OVN.
References
----------
.. [1] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/blob/master/TODO.rst
.. [2] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/rocky/minimum-bandwidth-allocation-placement-api.html
.. [3] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/786478
.. [4] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/6aec0fb280f610a2083fbb6c61e251b1d237b21f.1576840560.git.lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com/
.. [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1895972
.. [6] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1926515
.. [7] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/788594
.. [8] https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/admin/config-dns-res.html