On our ocata openstack install, we've chosen to configure the neutron "option1" https://docs.openstack.org/ocata/inst... "Provider networks" (so not the option with vxlan https://docs.openstack.org/ocata/inst...)

This is quite nice and simple for VMs, they get the flat internal IP and we get less network complexity.

Now, we're trying to install and use magnum https://docs.openstack.org/ocata/inst... (which by the way doesn't seem to mention that it requires heat - which we installed for it). The "test the install" part says that creating a subnet is optional https://docs.openstack.org/project-in... so we skipped that.

The template looks like this (trying to replace the external-network from public to provider)

magnum cluster-template-create --name swarm-cluster-template     \
                 --image fedora-atomic-ocata                \
                 --keypair arthur \
                 --external-network provider  \
                 --dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8   \
                --master-flavor m1.small   \
                --flavor m1.small  \
                 --coe swarm

For the creation of the cluster we get an error :

  magnum cluster-create --name swarm-cluster \
                        --cluster-template swarm-cluster-template

Here is the status_reason :

 ERROR: Failed to validate: : resources.network: : HEAT-E99001 Service neutron is not available for resource type Magnum::Optional::Neutron::RouterInterface, reason: Required extension router in neutron service is not available.

So my question is this : is it possible to get magnum to work with the provider networks / flat approach or if we want to use it do we have to switch to the vxlan neutron approach ?