For testing and POCs, we maintain OVS and OVN packages in a AWS VM. (For production, it is recommended that you build your own OVS packages.) To install packages from there, you can run:
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
echo "deb http://18.191.116.101/openvswitch/stable /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvswitch.list
wget -O - http://18.191.116.101/openvswitch/keyFile | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
To install OVS bits on all nodes, run:
sudo apt-get build-dep dkms
sudo apt-get install python-six openssl -y
sudo apt-get install openvswitch-datapath-dkms -y
sudo apt-get install openvswitch-switch openvswitch-common -y
On the master node, where you intend to start OVN's central components, run:
sudo apt-get install ovn-central ovn-common ovn-host -y
On the agent nodes, run:
sudo apt-get install ovn-host ovn-common -y
Install a few pre-requisite packages.
apt-get update
apt-get install -y build-essential fakeroot debhelper \
autoconf automake libssl-dev \
openssl python-all \
python-setuptools \
python-six \
libtool git dh-autoreconf \
linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Clone the OVS repo.
git clone https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs.git
cd ovs
Configure and compile the sources
./boot.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-ssl --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
make -j3
Install the executables
make install
make modules_install
Create a depmod.d file to use OVS kernel modules from this repo instead of upstream linux.
cat > /etc/depmod.d/openvswitch.conf << EOF
override openvswitch * extra
override vport-geneve * extra
override vport-stt * extra
override vport-* * extra
EOF
Copy a startup script and start OVS
depmod -a
cp debian/openvswitch-switch.init /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch
/etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch force-reload-kmod