Will OpenVSwitch be supported?

[b1r63r]

I would really like to see OVS being supported through this role. Are there plans for this? For NM there is NetworkManager-ovs, so that side should be rather easy to cover

[tyll]

Currently, this is not planned. Would you be able to contribute this with our guidance and review? Which features do you need?

[b1r63r]

I really like the way the network role gives me a robust way to reconfigure a server newly installed using only one network interface to a bond into a bridge and move the host over to a macvlan port. Without any problems when the existing network interface gets cut off and transferred to the macvlan bridge. So I would like to do the same for ovs bridges. Be able to take a default fedora/centos/rhel install and use ansible to rewire to a ovs bridge with trunk port over a bond out to external switch and ovs connectivity for both the host itself and vm's/containers. My personal preference is nm over old style config files (even if I have been working on unix systems since mid eighties) so I would be happy with something that uses NetworkManager-ovs. This is currently for my personal little lab, but I would see this as a very useful extension of the role with ovs being a large part of okd/OpenShift and other modern platforms.

[tyll]

This is now supported using network_state with Nmstate.