DIMINET: On Demand Multi-site Connectivity for Edge Infrastructures
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2020-10-27

Special thanks to our 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit sponsors for making the event possible: Canonical (Ubuntu), Huawei, VEXXHOST, Cisco, Tencent Cloud, InMotion Hosting, Mirantis, Red Hat, Trilio, VanillaStack.io, and ZTE!
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To the best of our knowledge, there is no study that evaluates how Neutron behaves in an edge computing context. A point discussed during the edge sessions of the last PTG. To move forward, our community should investigate such a question under the two architectural models described in the 2nd white paper: centralized and distributed control planes. While the former should not require extensions in the vanilla code, the latter implies to revise the current Neutron architecture to allow DevOps define cross network virtualization services (i.e. create a L2/L3 segment between independent OpenStack on-demand, etc.) This presentation introduces DIMINET, our contribution to interconnect independent Neutrons in an automatized and transparent manner, leveraging the Neutron to Neutron interconnection API. DIMINET allows to mitigate management traffic and keep each site operational in case of network partitions by communicating among distributed agents only if needed.

Speaker: David Espinel
Track: 5G, NFV & Edge