[ovs-dev] Using ovn without openstack neutron

[Russell Bryant]

On 10/13/2015 05:51 AM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 2015-10-13 3:57 GMT+03:00 Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com>:
>> I wrote up this tutorial for exercising OVN features using the command
>> line tools.  It may help give an idea of how you'd integrate with it
>> from another system.
>>
>> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/tutorial/OVN-Tutorial.md
> 
> 
> This is nice! Does ovn have rest api?
> 

No.  The interface is just the northbound database.  You can write to it
using the OVSDB protocol or the OVN command line tools.  If you use
Python, there's a library you can use, which is what OpenStack uses.

Part of what you get by adding Neutron is a REST API.  That was just the
first integration, though.  Integration in OpenDaylight for example
would be another way to get a REST API (among other things).

Another option would be to write our own simple REST API.  I think it'd
be pretty straight forward using the Python library and one of the
several REST API frameworks.

-- 
Russell Bryant