Current Series Release Notes

7.0.0-7

New Features

• Adds a new L2VNI (Layer 2 Virtual Network Identifier) mechanism driver that enables baremetal servers to connect to VXLAN and Geneve overlay networks. The driver automatically allocates dynamic VLAN segments on physical networks and creates OVN localnet ports to bridge overlay traffic to baremetal nodes.

  To enable the driver, add baremetal_l2vni to the mechanism_drivers list in ml2_conf.ini:

  [ml2]
  mechanism_drivers = ovn,baremetal_l2vni
  
  [baremetal_l2vni]
  create_localnet_ports = True
  default_physical_network = physnet1
  

  See the L2VNI mechanism driver documentation for complete configuration and deployment details.

7.0.0

Other Notes

• Explicit usage and monkey-patching with eventlet have been removed. Since this is a Neutron plugin, Neutron may still load eventlet modules, but networking-baremetal no longer explicitly uses it. Operators should be sensitive to potential performance changes, although none are expected.