SDN VPN release notes

OPNFV Release Note for the Colorado.1.0 release of OPNFV for SDN VPN feature

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 .. (c) Tim Irnich (Ericsson) and others

Abstract

This document comprises the release notes for the SDN VPN feature contained in the Colorado release of OPNFV.

Important notes

In the Colorado release, SDN VPN only supports ODL as a backend. Make sure to always deploy SDN VPN and ODL together. Make use of deployment scenarios including the SDNVPN feature.

Summary

SDN VPN adds the possibility to create and associate BGP/MPLS based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) through the OpenStack Neutron BGPVPN API extension.

Release Data

Project sdnvpn
Repo/tag Colorado.1.0
Release designation Colorado 1.0 follow-up release
Release date September 22 2016
Purpose of the delivery Including BGP stack - Quagga Fuel 9.0 baseline + Bug-fixes HEAT integration 2 new e2e testcases for Functest Documentation

Version change

Compared to the Brahmaputra release, a new version of ODL including several critical bugfixes is deployed. Together with the new BGP stack and HEAT integration the user can use now full stack bgp. New testcases to functest were added to guarantee functionality.

Module version changes

ODL has been upgraded to Beryllium SR3.

Document changes

The amount documentation is increased substantially. E2E deployment docu and examples to use bgpvpn is added.

Reason for version

Feature additions

SDN VPN adds the possibility to create and associate BGP/MPLS based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) through the OpenStack Neutron BGPVPN API extension.

Bug corrections

Several bugs in ODL VPN Service have been fixed in this release.

Deliverables

Software deliverables
  • Fuel plugin for OpenStack BGPVPN
  • Changes to ODL Fuel plugin to activate VPN Service Karaf feature
  • Integration of VPN Service functional tests and BGPVPN API tests into Functest framework
Documentation deliverables
  • Paragraph on SDN VPN feature for platform overview
  • Configuration guide
  • User guide
  • Release noes (this document)

Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

System Limitations

Floating ip will come with the Boron release so yardstick testcases cannot be run and the user is only able to access the node through tenat network. Boron is targeted for Colorado 2.0. Due to lacking support for floating IPs in ODL VPNService (which replaces Netvirt as Neutron backend in the SDN VPN scenarios), the following test suites have some restrictions and are not executed: - Tempest:

tempest.api.compute.servers.test_create_server.ServersTestJSON tempest.api.compute.servers.test_create_server.ServersTestManualDisk tempest.api.compute.servers.test_server_actions.ServerActionsTestJSON tempest.scenario.test_network_basic_ops.TestNetworkBasicOps.test_network_basic_ops tempest.scenario.test_server_basic_ops.TestServerBasicOps.test_server_basic_ops tempest.scenario.test_volume_boot_pattern.TestVolumeBootPattern.test_volume_boot_pattern tempest.scenario.test_volume_boot_pattern.TestVolumeBootPatternV2.test_volume_boot_pattern

Yardstick uses the floating ip mechanism to connect to the instances using SSH. Therefore, the default test cases have been replaced by the ones running tests on the bare-metal servers. Feature specific Yardstick test cases have not been implemented, we plan to add these in Colorado 2.0.

It is known that the performance of management operations is quite low. To work around the overall timeout of functest, the performance tool Rally was excluded from the test list. For Colorado 2.0 a much higher performance is expected and Rally it is expected to be included again.

A timeout in promise occurs. This timeout was set from 5 to 10 seconds for all scenarios a jira ticket was written to change it back in Colorado 2.0: https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/PROMISE-79.

Parser testcase was removed from functest due to low performance. In Colorado 2.0 a big performance improvement is forseen and Parser will then be added again.

Known issues

Workarounds

Test results

The deployment scenarios have successfully deployed in OPNFV CI many times and all Functest tests (general and feature specific) are passing.

References