ovsdb-etcd is an alternative ovsdb-server implementation, for use in conjunction with ovn-kubernetes, written in golang and using etcd as a backend. It is a fully compatible drop-in replacement for ovsdb-server and adheres to spec rfc7047 and spec extension ovsdb-server.

The objects are mapped to etcd as follows:

data:           <prefix>/<service>/<dbName>/<table>/<uuid> --> <row>
comments:       <prefix>/<service>/<dbName>/_comments/<timestamp> --> <comment>
locks:          <prefix>/<service>/_/_locks/<lockid> --> nil

As ovsdb transactions have different semantics than etcd transactions, the initial implementation consists of:

• receiving the transaction-request in ovsdb semantics
• catching the global lock
• etcd get the pre-transaction tables
• process ovsdb semantics on memory
• etcd post the post-transaction rows
• releasing the global lock
• sending the transaction-response in ovsdb semantics

An ovsdb monitor enrollment is implemented as:

• receiving monitor-request in ovsdb semantics
• enrolling to get etcd events per entire database (to support cross tables consistency)
• sending monitor-response in ovsdb semantics

An ovsdb monitor event is implemented as:

• receiving monitor-event in etcd semantics
• extract from etcd database event all ovsdb table events (package as one update to support cross tables consistency)
• sending monitor-event is ovsdb semantics

You must have a working Go Environment.

Then clone ovn-kubernetes from our fork:

git clone https://github.com/ibm/ovn-kubernetes
pushd ovn-kubernetes
git checkout ovsdb-etcd2
export OVN_KUBERNETES_ROOT=$PWD
popd

Then clone ovsdb-etcd and build and push docker images:

git clone https://github.com/IBM/ovsdb-etcd
make docker-build

Setup your docker.io credentials:

export CR_PASSWORD=<DOCKER_PASSWORD>
export CR_USERNAME=<DOCKER_USENAME>
export OVSDB_ETCD_REPOSITORY=$CR_USERNAME

Login to docker and push (optional):

echo $CR_PASSWORD | docker login $CR_REPO -u $CR_USERNAME --password-stdin
make docker-push

Disable tcpdump logging (optional):

export OVNDB_ETCD_TCPDUMP='false'

Deploy onto a kind cluster:

make ovnk-deploy
make ovnk-status

• open an issue.
• post on slack for RedHat users.