[ovs-discuss] Docker and OVS

[Gurucharan Shetty]

Yes.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Abhishek Verma
<abhishekv.verma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great. Then i can have virtual ports added to OVS that can be tied to
> specific docker instances. Is this correct?
>
> Thanks, Abhishek
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Abhishek Verma
>> <abhishekv.verma at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Guru,
>> >
>> > Thanks for this.
>> >
>> > Does this mean that i can run OVS inside docker containers and can they
>> > then
>> > communicate with each other? So if i am running 2 docker containers on
>> > the
>> > same host then will i then be running two OVS instances -- one inside
>> > each
>> > container?
>>
>> No. I did not mean to say that. You can run OVS outside docker
>> containers and have OVS/OVN provide networking.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Cheers, Abhishek
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If you want to use OVS with Docker's released versions without a
>> >> control plane, you will have to use something like this:
>> >> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/utilities/ovs-docker
>> >>
>> >> If you want to use OVS with Docker's libnetwork (which is still
>> >> experimental and the api's will likely change based on this week's
>> >> discussions around ipam), there is work going on to provide OVN as the
>> >> control plane.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Abhishek Verma
>> >> <abhishekv.verma at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > Can i use OVS to connect two docker containers? Is there some work
>> >> > happening
>> >> > in that direction?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks, Abhishek
>> >> >
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