Composable Services in OVN#

Speakers: Mark Michelson, Red Hat, Inc. (from abstract only)

Why: Reveals where the core OVN team is taking the project's architecture — the session type this digest is told to up-rank.

What: A new proposal to extract certain functionality from existing OVN logical datapaths and implement it as standalone specialized datapaths ("composable services"), giving administrators more clarity and power over packet processing, with ACLs, NATs, and load balancers called out as beneficiaries, plus possible future offerings.

How: Not detailed in the available material — this is a proposal-stage design talk rather than a shipped feature.

Where applicable: OVN project-level direction; anyone building products on OVN should track how ACL/NAT/LB semantics change under this model.