Support for veth peer links

[Aurelien Lourot]

In our Juju OpenStack charms [0] we're using `ip link add DEVICE type veth peer name NAME` [1] in /etc/network/interfaces . We'd like to start using netplan to express this instead, because on Ubuntu 18.04 and above there is no NetworkManager by default. It seems like netplan doesn't support this yet though [2]. There seems to be a workaround [3] but this would make our implementation quite complex.

Do you plan on adding a way to express this in netplan? Thanks!

0: https://github.com/juju/charm-helpers/blob/95a0f335/charmhelpers/contrib/network/ovs/__init__.py#L37
1: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-ip-link/
2: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/netplan/blob/master/TODO#L16
3: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1054034/netplan-how-to-describe-veth-peer-links

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

netplan.io has native support for ovs bridges and fakevlans.

why are you adding linux veth, instead of using ovs?

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

I am concerned about the rest of the non-declarative ovs code in that hook, which should be converted to native netplan snippets instead?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for netplan because there has been no activity for 60 days.]