neutron/releasenotes/notes/OVN-L3-with-FIP-PF-require-centralized-FIPs-65864dfeb3edc9b1.yaml
Slawek Kaplonski ce53fb55ad [OVN] Warn about invalid OVN and FIP PF config during start of Neutron
In case when port_forwarding service plugin is enabled and vlan or flat
network (provider network types) is configured as one of the
tenant_network_types in the ML2 config there is an issue with
centralized and distributed traffic.
FIP port forwarding in ovn backend are implemented as OVN Load balancers
thus are always centralized but if "enable_distributed_floating_ip" is
set to True, FIPs are distributed. And in such case it won't work as
expected as either it tries to send FIP PF's traffic as distributed when
"reside-on-redirect-chassis" for LRP is set to "false" or
tries to centralized everything (even FIP which should be distributed)
when "reside-on-redirect-chassis" is set to "true".

It's not really easy to avoid that issue from the code so this patch
adds warning in the upgrade checks and also log warning about it during
start of the neutron server process to at least warn cloud admin that
such potential issue may happen in the cloud.

Related-Bug: #2028846
Change-Id: I398f3f676c59dc794cf03320fa45efc7b22fc003
2024-02-06 14:46:48 +00:00

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When the following configuration is enabled at the same time:
* OVN L3 service plugin (``ovn-router``)
* Port forwarding service plugin (``port_forwarding``)
* "vlan" or "flat" network types configured in the ML2 configuration
variable ``tenant_network_types``
* The OVN floating IP traffic is distributed
(``enable_distributed_floating_ip`` = ``True``)
the Neutron server will report a warning during plugin initialization
because this is an invalid configuration matrix. Floating IPs need to
always be centralized in such a case.
For more details see `bug report
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2028846>`_.