OVN is a network virtualization system that has been under development as part of the Open vSwitch project over about the last two years. On this podcast, Ben Pfaff and Russell Bryant, two major contributors to OVN, describe OVN, its architecture, its features, focusing on features that were added in the recent release of Open vSwitch 2.6, and some future directions.

This episode is based on the material presented at the OpenStack Summit in the session titled “OVN - Moving to Production.” The summit talk was recorded and video and slides are available. This podcast follows the structure of the slides pretty closely, making them a useful companion document to look at while listening, but the episode is meant to stand alone.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Discussion of databases for OVN: ovs-dev list archive.
• Continuous integration keynote, “Demoing the World's Largest Multi-Cloud CI Application”: video.
• OVN SFC talk, “Delivering OpenStack NFV Service Chaining at Scale with Networking-SFC and Networking-OVN”: video.
• Open vSwitch/OVN Git repository at Github.
• Open vSwitch development and general discussion mailing lists. (You can also reach the list archives from these pages.)
• ovn-kubernetes integration Git repository at Github.
• Russell Bryant's blog.
• Open vSwitch 2016 Fall Conference, to be held Nov. 7 and 8 in San Jose California, details, agenda, and (until Nov. 7) online registration.

Russell Bryant is a software developer in Red Hat's Office of the CTO. You can find him at russellbryant.net or on Twitter as @russellbryant.

OVS Orbit is produced by Ben Pfaff. The intro music in this episode is Drive, featuring cdk and DarrylJ, copyright 2013, 2016 by Alex. The bumper music is Yeah Ant featuring Wired Ant and Javolenus, copyright 2013 by Speck. The outro music is Space Bazooka featuring Doxen Zsigmond, copyright 2013 by Kirkoid. All content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license.