[lxc-users] OVS / GRE - guest-transparent mesh networking across multiple hosts

Fajar A. Nugraha list at fajar.net
Thu Aug 3 14:08:19 UTC 2017


On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Amaury Amblard-Ladurantie
> <amaury at linux.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am deploying 10< bare metal servers to serve as hosts for containers
>> managed through LXD.
>> As the number of container grows, management of inter-container
>> running on different hosts becomes difficult to manage and need to be
>> streamlined.
>
>
>> Has anyone built such a setup?
>> Does the OVS+GRE setup need to be build prior to LXD init or can LXD
>> automate part of the setup?
>> Online documentation is scarce on the topic so any help would be
>> appreciated.
>
>
> Short version: https://stgraber.org/2016/10/27/network-management-with-lxd-2-3/
> Look for 'tunnel'.


Whoops, looks like you already read that :)

I wonder though, why did you ask 'Does the OVS+GRE setup need to be
build prior to LXD init or can LXD
automate part of the setup?', when the doc specifically mention tunnel
(including GRE) configuration in lxd.

-- 
Fajar


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