[pve-devel] proxmox 2018 : add support for "virtual" network and network plugins ?

[lyt_yudi]

> I think, first, we can try to implement only the virtual network, without focus on external gateway.
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> I'm seeing 2 good candidate:
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> for linux bridge : vxlan ebgp-vpn
> for ovs : ovn network (http://openvswitch.org/support/slides/OVN_LinuxCon_Toronto.pdf)
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> Both have almost the same architecture.
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> -a distributed controlplane controller. (vxlan ebgp: a routing daemon like frr/quagga, ovn : ovn controller).
> It can be deployed on all proxmox nodes
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> -a distributed "anycast" local router
> -vm can used them as gateway. we can implement dhcp,dns,cloudinit.
> -we can get ip/mac from control plane. (could be used to add auto ipfiltering on vm firewall for example, maybe other stuff)
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> So 
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> 1) implement the "network" create (create bridge/ovs, configure the controllers)
> 2) configure the local router and services
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> When this is implemented, we could focus on external network access.
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> - ovn need a gateway node
> - linux evpn-bgp can peer with external router if bgp is supported, 
>  or use 1 gateway node with a simple default gw.(+ a backup gateway node) 
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> then implement s-nat and floating ip as option if user want them.
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> and finally (next year ;) maybe other stuff like loadbalancing as a service, vpn as a service, 
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> what do you think about this ?

Sound Great!