Queens Series Release Notes

17.0.2

New Features

  • Enable networking-bgpvpn ml2 neutron driver to make OpenDaylight SDN Controller to support BGPVPN for external network connectivity. You can set the neutron_plugin_type to ml2.opendaylight and neutron_plugin_base to odl-router_v2 and bgpvpn to enable BGPVPN on the OpenDaylight.

17.0.0

New Features

  • FWaaS V2 has been added to neutron. To enable this service simply add “firewall_v2” to the “neutron_plugin_base” list.

  • An option has been added allowing the user to define the user_group LBaaSv2 uses. The new option is neutron_lbaasv2_user_group and is set within the OS specific value by default.

  • The OpenDaylight SDN Controller can be deployed as a neutron ML2 backend. You can set the neutron_plugin_type to ml2.opendaylight to utilize this code path. The usage of OpenDaylight is currently experimental.

  • Open vSwitch dataplane with NSH support has been implemented. This feature may be activated by setting ovs_nsh_support: True in /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml.

Upgrade Notes

  • Default quotas were bumped for the following resources: networks (from 10 to 100), subnets (from 10 to 100), ports (from 50 to 500) to match upstream defaults.

Bug Fixes

  • SELinux policy for neutron on CentOS 7 is now provided to fix SELinux AVCs that occur when neutron’s agents attempt to start daemons such as haproxy and dnsmasq.