Show notes
Alessandro is CTO of Cloudbase Solutions, a company focused on cloud computing interoperability and the main contributor of all the OpenStack Windows and Hyper-V components in Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Ceilometer and Heat since the Folsom release. Alin is a developer at Cloudbase who describes himself as an Open Source enthusiast and a passionate Python developer at heart. Slides for this talk are available in PDF format. This episode is a talk that Alessandro and Alin gave at OpenStack Boston during the Open vSwitch Open Source Day on May 10, with the following abstract: Current Windows datapath development aids users and simplifies networking deployments. One of the improvements brings Linux Bridges (OVS bridges) mentality under Windows. Recent development also allows for OVN to work together with the Windows datapath. This session will cover how it can be achieved on Windows under Hyper-V as well. Among other topics, we will cover how to set up OVN using DevStack and add a Windows node and how to debug Windows-specific problems, with a demo. In addition, one of the recent and interesting integration of OVN is Kubernetes. This helps users to deploy containers over both public and private clouds. Cloudbase Solutions recently added a PoC (proof of concept) integration for Windows. This allows Windows workloads to be deployed under the same cluster. We will emphasize on the advantages that can be achieved using this type of approach. We will explain how to set up an environment including a Windows node and play a prerecorded demo. The demos may be of less interest than the rest of the talk because no video is available. If you want to skip over them, they run from Alessandro previously appeared on OVS Orbit way back in Episode 1: Porting OVS to Hyper-V. OVS Orbit is produced by Ben Pfaff. The intro music in this episode is Drive, featuring cdk and DarrylJ, copyright 2013, 2016 by Alex. The bumper music is Yeah Ant featuring Wired Ant and Javolenus, copyright 2013 by Speck. The outro music is Space Bazooka featuring Doxen Zsigmond, copyright 2013 by Kirkoid. All content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license.

