In https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OPNET-10 we did some initial investigation of a new design for handling creation of br-ex for OVNK. We successfully came up with a high-level design, but we still need to translate that into an implementable OpenShift feature. The goal for this epic would be to come up with an accepted enhancement. The implementation of the design would likely need to happen in the next release.

Notable obstacles to this work are:

• The inability to do per-node configuration in existing OpenShift operators. In order to support things like static IPs we need a way to provide a separate configuration for each node.
• API team's objections to having NMState configurations represented in the OpenShift API. When we discussed this with them recently they were strongly opposed to NMState as an interface, including the existing baremetal and kubernetes-nmstate cases.