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Introduction
MidoNet is an Apache licensed production grade network virtualization software for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Plugin for Fuel 8.0 provides the puppet manifests to install all the components to deploy easily MidoNet with Fuel in both lab or production environments.
Fuel MidoNet plugin is capable of deploying MidoNet v2015.06 on top of Mirantis OpenStack Fuel version 8.0. There are no prerequisites to use the MidoNet plugin: MidoNet is Open Source, and the plugin sets the repositories from where download and install MidoNet packages.
This plugin also supports Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) installation by allowing the user to choose the option from the Fuel Web UI. The packages are available to download from a password protected-repository. The needed credentials will be provided by Midokura.
Requirements
| Requirement | Version/Comment |
|---|---|
| Fuel | 8.0 |
| MidoNet plugin for Fuel | 4.0.0 |
Known Limitations
- The plugin has some limitations regarding node count scalability for NSDB (Network State Database) and OpenStack Controller role nodes. Once number of nodes with such roles have been determined on initial deployment, it can not be changed. Compute role nodes are not affected by this limitation, current plugin version supports Compute scalability.
- Current version of plugin can only deploy single MidoNet Gareway role node. MidoNet itself supports any number of gateway nodes, it is only a plugin limitation, additional nodes needs to be set up manually.
Changes in MidoNet plugin 4.0.0
- New features:
- Support for Fuel 8.0
- Tasks are included in the
deploymentstage of Fuel instead of in thepost_deployment, so the time of deployment has decreased around 20-30 minutes, as well as it makes the deployment more reliable.- MidoNet option available in the Networking Setup during the environment creation, making the configuration of an environment with MidoNet much easier.