goovs

The go library used to communicate with Openvswitch and manage Openvswitch bridges and ports

Description

This is the high level library for Go programs to interact with Openvswitch.

Features:

• Can connect to local Openvswitch db via Unix socket or remote tcp socket
• Can be used to create/delete bridges, create/delete various types of ports, e.g. Internal port, Veth port or Patch port

Features which are not ready:

• Openvswitch flow management are not in place since they are not handled by ovsdb

Environment

Code is tested with Openvswitch 2.0 on Ubuntu14.04

Examples

Connect to local Openvswitch DB

	client, err := goovs.GetOVSClient("unix", "")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err.Error())
		return
	}

Create a bridge

	err := client.CreateBridge(brName)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err.Error())
	}

Create internal port on the bridge

	err := client.CreateInternalPort(brName, internalPortName, internalPortTag)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err.Error())
	}