Installation¶
If possible, you should rely on packages provided by your Linux and/or OpenStack distribution:
- For Fedora or CentOS, you can install the
python-networking-sfcRPM package provided by the RDO project.
If you use pip, follow these steps to install networking-sfc:
identify the version of the networking-sfc package that matches your OpenStack version:
- Ocata: latest 4.0.x version
- Newton: latest 3.0.x version
- Mitaka: latest 2.0.x version
indicate pip to (a) install precisely this version and (b) take into account OpenStack upper constraints on package versions for dependencies (example for Ocata):
pip install -c https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/requirements/plain/upper-constraints.txt?h=stable/ocata networking-sfc==4.0.0
Configuration¶
Controller nodes¶
After installing the package, enable the service plugins in neutron-server by
adding them in neutron.conf (typically found in /etc/neutron/):
service_plugins=router,networking_sfc.services.flowclassifier.plugin.FlowClassifierPlugin,networking_sfc.services.sfc.plugin.SfcPlugin
In the same configuration file, specify the driver to use in the plugins. Here we use the OVS driver:
[sfc]
drivers = ovs
[flowclassifier]
drivers = ovs
After that, restart the neutron-server. In devstack, this is the q-svc
service. With systemd setups you can run:
systemctl restart neutron-server
Compute nodes¶
After installing the package, enable the networking-sfc extension in the Open
vSwitch agent. The configuration file name can change, the default one is
/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini. Add the sfc extension:
extensions = sfc
And restart the neutron-openvswitch-agent process. In devstack, this is the
q-agt service. With systemd setups you can run:
systemctl restart neutron-openvswitch-agent
Database setup¶
The database is the standard Neutron database with a few more tables, which
can be configured with neutron-db-manage command-line tool:
neutron-db-manage --subproject networking-sfc upgrade head