This talk will provide an update on the Windows community around OVS and OVN.
It will cover the following topics:
- Improvements in quality of life for Windows developers such as easier ways to build the project and run unit tests (Including running Windows unit tests on Linux based environments).
- Updates on the Windows datapath. Timeline table of features that were added on Linux and still are missing on Windows.
- Future directions of the Windows datapath:
- Currently we only support creating interfaces via the Hyper-V WMI provider. This is limited because Hyper-V support needs to be enabled. Adding support for HNS networks will allow us to bypass that limitation when deploying containers.
- Adding support for TAP (WinPcap) interfaces. This will help us prepare for the future and remove our dependency on the Hyper-V vSwitch. Another hidden added benefit is that we can implement eBPF support.
- Ovn-kubernetes brief introduction and updates
- General status around Windows support in ovn-kubernetes
- How to deploy ovn-kubernetes together with Windows nodes (including Vagrant and Ansible scripts)
- Prerecorded/live demos of Openstack and ovn-kubernetes environments that have Windows nodes deployed on premise and cloud environments.
