In the past year, Open vSwitch have been receiving plenty of new major features useful for cloud infrastructure (Open Stack, Docker) and telco industry (NFV). Some of the features are still under development, some are ready to be used. Among the most important ones are conntrack and NAT support, conversion of tunneling code to lightweight tunnels, tunneling over IPv6, MPLS and NSH support. This talk will present the new and upcoming features with explanation, examples and usage. The new Open Virtual Network (OVN) project that is co-developed with Open vSwitch will be mentioned, too, but its detailed coverage is out of scope of this presentation. "
Jiri is a Linux kernel developer with networking background. His main focus nowadays is on network virtualization and networking solutions for cloud computing.
