[pve-devel] [RFC cluster/manager/network/proxmox{-ve-rs, -perl-rs} 00/11] Add SDN Fabrics
Stefan Hanreich
s.hanreich at proxmox.com
Mon Mar 3 17:58:31 CET 2025
Could you please rebase this (patch 3 in particular doesn't apply) and
make sure everything builds debian packages properly (in ve-rs via
build.sh)?
I'll continue tomorrow with the review!
On 2/14/25 14:39, Gabriel Goller wrote:
> This series allows the user to add fabrics such as OpenFabric and OSPF over
> their clusters.
>
> Note that this is a very early RFC and its sole purpose is to get some initial
> feedback and architectural suggestions.
>
> Overview
> --------
> Add a new section to the sdn panel in the datacenter options which allows
> creating OpenFabric and OSPF fabrics. One can add Nodes to the fabrics by
> selecting them from a dropdown which shows all the nodes in the cluster.
> Additionally the user can then select the interfaces of the node which should
> be added to the fabric. There are also protocol-specific options such as "passive",
> "hello-interval" etc. available to select on the interface.
>
> Implementation
> --------------
> Add config files for every fabric type, so currently we add sdn/ospf.cfg and
> sdn/openfabric.cfg. These config file get read by pve-network and the raw
> section config gets passed to rust (proxmox-perl-rs), where we parse it using
> helpers and schemas from proxmox-ve-config crate (proxmox-ve-rs repo). The
> config parsed from the section-config is then converted into a better
> representation (no PropertyString, embed Nodes into Fabrics, etc.), which is
> also guaranteed to be correct (everything is typed and the values are
> semantically checked). This intermediate representation can then be converted
> into a `FrrConfig`, which lives in the proxmox-frr crate (proxmox-ve-rs repo).
> This representation is very close to the real frr config (eg contains routers,
> interfaces, etc.) and can either be converted to a `PerlFrr` config (which will
> be used by pve-network to merge with the existin config) or (optional and
> experimental) into a string, which would be the actual frr config as it can be
> found in `frr.conf`.
>
> This series also relies on:
> https://lore.proxmox.com/pve-devel/20250205161340.740740-1-g.goller@proxmox.com/
>
> Open Questions/Issues:
> * generate openfabric net from the selected interface ip (the net is quite
> hard to get right otherwise).
> * Reminder to apply configuration -> Probably add a "state" column which shows
> "new" (when not applied) like in the sdn/controllers grid.
> * Add ability for the user to create a "standard" setup, where he can select a
> node and we automatically add an ip address to the loopback address and add
> the loopback interface as passive to the openfabric/ospf fabric. (Maybe we
> are able to get frr to support dummy interfaces in the meantime, which would
> be even better.)
> * Check if we want continue using the pve-network perl frr merging code or if
> we want to transition to rust -> vtysh. So the config gets flushed to the
> daemon directly using vtysh, this allows the user to change the frr config
> manually and their settings not getting overwritten by us (we also avoid
> reloading the daemon).
> * Write some extensive documentation on what the Fabrics can/cannot do.
>
> proxmox-ve-rs:
>
> Gabriel Goller (3):
> add crate with common network types
> add proxmox-frr crate with frr types
> add intermediate fabric representation
>
> Cargo.toml | 7 +
> proxmox-frr/Cargo.toml | 25 +
> proxmox-frr/src/common.rs | 54 ++
> proxmox-frr/src/lib.rs | 223 ++++++++
> proxmox-frr/src/openfabric.rs | 137 +++++
> proxmox-frr/src/ospf.rs | 148 ++++++
> proxmox-network-types/Cargo.toml | 15 +
> proxmox-network-types/src/lib.rs | 1 +
> proxmox-network-types/src/net.rs | 239 +++++++++
> proxmox-ve-config/Cargo.toml | 10 +-
> proxmox-ve-config/debian/control | 4 +-
> proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/common.rs | 90 ++++
> proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/mod.rs | 68 +++
> .../src/sdn/fabric/openfabric.rs | 494 ++++++++++++++++++
> proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/ospf.rs | 375 +++++++++++++
> proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/mod.rs | 1 +
> 16 files changed, 1885 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 proxmox-frr/Cargo.toml
> create mode 100644 proxmox-frr/src/common.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-frr/src/lib.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-frr/src/openfabric.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-frr/src/ospf.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-network-types/Cargo.toml
> create mode 100644 proxmox-network-types/src/lib.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-network-types/src/net.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/common.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/mod.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/openfabric.rs
> create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/ospf.rs
>
>
> proxmox-perl-rs:
>
> Gabriel Goller (1):
> fabrics: add CRUD and generate fabrics methods
>
> pve-rs/Cargo.toml | 5 +-
> pve-rs/Makefile | 3 +
> pve-rs/src/lib.rs | 1 +
> pve-rs/src/sdn/fabrics.rs | 202 ++++++++++++++++
> pve-rs/src/sdn/mod.rs | 3 +
> pve-rs/src/sdn/openfabric.rs | 454 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> pve-rs/src/sdn/ospf.rs | 425 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 7 files changed, 1092 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 pve-rs/src/sdn/fabrics.rs
> create mode 100644 pve-rs/src/sdn/mod.rs
> create mode 100644 pve-rs/src/sdn/openfabric.rs
> create mode 100644 pve-rs/src/sdn/ospf.rs
>
>
> pve-cluster:
>
> Gabriel Goller (1):
> cluster: add sdn fabrics config files
>
> src/PVE/Cluster.pm | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
>
> pve-network:
>
> Gabriel Goller (3):
> add config file and common read/write methods
> merge the frr config with the fabrics frr config on apply
> add api endpoints for fabrics
>
> src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN.pm | 7 +
> src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics.pm | 57 +++
> src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics/Common.pm | 111 +++++
> src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics/Makefile | 9 +
> .../API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics/OpenFabric.pm | 460 ++++++++++++++++++
> src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics/Ospf.pm | 433 +++++++++++++++++
> src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Makefile | 3 +-
> src/PVE/Network/SDN.pm | 8 +-
> src/PVE/Network/SDN/Controllers.pm | 1 -
> src/PVE/Network/SDN/Controllers/EvpnPlugin.pm | 3 -
> src/PVE/Network/SDN/Controllers/Frr.pm | 13 +
> src/PVE/Network/SDN/Fabrics.pm | 86 ++++
> src/PVE/Network/SDN/Makefile | 2 +-
> 13 files changed, 1186 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics.pm
> create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics/Common.pm
> create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics/Makefile
> create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics/OpenFabric.pm
> create mode 100644 src/PVE/API2/Network/SDN/Fabrics/Ospf.pm
> create mode 100644 src/PVE/Network/SDN/Fabrics.pm
>
>
> pve-manager:
>
> Gabriel Goller (3):
> sdn: add Fabrics view
> sdn: add fabric edit/delete forms
> network: return loopback interface on network endpoint
>
> PVE/API2/Cluster.pm | 7 +-
> PVE/API2/Network.pm | 9 +-
> www/manager6/.lint-incremental | 0
> www/manager6/Makefile | 8 +
> www/manager6/dc/Config.js | 8 +
> www/manager6/sdn/FabricsView.js | 359 ++++++++++++++++++
> www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/Common.js | 222 +++++++++++
> .../sdn/fabrics/openfabric/FabricEdit.js | 67 ++++
> .../sdn/fabrics/openfabric/InterfaceEdit.js | 92 +++++
> .../sdn/fabrics/openfabric/NodeEdit.js | 187 +++++++++
> www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/ospf/FabricEdit.js | 60 +++
> .../sdn/fabrics/ospf/InterfaceEdit.js | 46 +++
> www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/ospf/NodeEdit.js | 191 ++++++++++
> 13 files changed, 1244 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/.lint-incremental
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/FabricsView.js
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/Common.js
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/openfabric/FabricEdit.js
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/openfabric/InterfaceEdit.js
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/openfabric/NodeEdit.js
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/ospf/FabricEdit.js
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/ospf/InterfaceEdit.js
> create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/ospf/NodeEdit.js
>
>
> Summary over all repositories:
> 50 files changed, 5409 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
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