[ovs-dev] [PATCH] sandbox: launch SB backup server when running in OVN mode

Andy Zhou azhou at ovn.org
Mon Aug 15 18:54:47 UTC 2016


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org> wrote:
>
>> Automatically launch backup server for OVN SB database that replicates
>> all transactions of the active server. This can be handy for
>> experimenting with the newly added replication feature.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou at ovn.org>
>>
>
> Sure, seems fine to me.  You could also add some notes to OVN-Tutorial.md
> about how to poke at the backup replica.
>

How about the following incremental? I'd like to fold it in before pushing
diff --git a/tutorial/OVN-Tutorial.md b/tutorial/OVN-Tutorial.md
index a1fff0b..be9805c 100644
--- a/tutorial/OVN-Tutorial.md
+++ b/tutorial/OVN-Tutorial.md
@@ -25,12 +25,17 @@ environment:
   1. Creates the `OVN_Northbound` and `OVN_Southbound` databases as
described in
      [ovn-nb(5)] and [ovn-sb(5)].

-  2. Creates the `hardware_vtep` database as described in [vtep(5)].
+  2. Creates a backup server for `OVN_Southbond` database. Sandbox launch
+     screen provides the instructions on accessing the backup database.
+     However access to the backup server is not required to go through the
+     tutorial.

-  3. Runs the [ovn-northd(8)], [ovn-controller(8)], and
[ovn-controller-vtep(8)]
+  3. Creates the `hardware_vtep` database as described in [vtep(5)].
+
+  4. Runs the [ovn-northd(8)], [ovn-controller(8)], and
[ovn-controller-vtep(8)]
      daemons.

-  4. Makes OVN and VTEP utilities available for use in the environment,
+  5. Makes OVN and VTEP utilities available for use in the environment,
      including [vtep-ctl(8)], [ovn-nbctl(8)], and [ovn-sbctl(8)].

 Note that each of these demos assumes you start with a fresh sandbox

>
> Acked-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
>
Thanks for the review.



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