I happened upon a thread about OVN's proposal for how to handle nova metadata traffic, which linked to this very good Suse blog post about how metadata traffic is routed in neutron. I'm just adding the link here because I think it will be useful to others. The OVN proposal is also an interesting read.
This will be my second last post about the Juno Nova mid-cycle meetup, which covers the state of play for work on the nova-network to Neutron upgrade. First off, some background information. Neutron (formerly Quantum) was developed over a long period of time to replace nova-network, and added to the OpenStack Folsom release. The development of new features for nova-network was frozen in the Nova code base, so that users would transition to Neutron. Unfortunately the transition period took longer than expected. We ended up having to unfreeze development of nova-network, in order to fix reliability problems that were affecting our CI gating and the reliability of deployments for existing nova-network users. Also, at least two OpenStack companies were carrying significant feature patches for nova-network, which we wanted to merge into the main code base. You can see the announcement at http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-January/025824.html. The main enhancements post-freeze were a conversion to use our new objects infrastructure (and therefore conductor), as well as features that were being developed by Nebula. I can't find any contributions from the other OpenStack company in the code base at this time, so I assume they haven't been proposed. The nova-network to Neutron migration path has come…