openvswitch/ovn repository overview

⁠OVN (Open Virtual Network)

It is a series of daemons that translates virtual network configuration into OpenFlow, and installs them into Open vSwitch.

It is licensed under the open source Apache 2 license.

Refer to https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/blob/master/README.rst⁠ for more details.

This repo contains the container images for each stable ovn release so that end user can just docker pull and run ovn on demand.

⁠Start OVN control plane containers using tcp:

docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovn-nb openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master ovn-nb-tcp

docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovn-sb openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master ovn-sb-tcp

docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovn-northd openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master ovn-northd-tcp

⁠Start OVN control plane containers using unix socket:

docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovn-nb -v /var/run/ovn/:/var/run/ovn/ openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master ovn-nb

docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovn-sb -v /var/run/ovn/:/var/run/ovn/ openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master ovn-sb

docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovn-northd -v /var/run/ovn/:/var/run/ovn/ openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master ovn-northd

⁠start local ovn-controller if ovs is also running in container:

docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovn-controller --volumes-from=ovsdb-server openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master ovn-controller

⁠Start local ovn-controller if ovs is running as a service:

docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovn-controller -v /var/run/openvswitch/:/var/run/openvswitch/ openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master ovn-controller

⁠Installing OVN

Refer to section @ https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/blob/master/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst⁠