The biggest advantage for me is how lightweight it is while still giving strong isolation, almost like a VM. We’re running multiple dev and project containers on the same hosts, and it handles that without much overhead.
It fits really well for our setup where each developer has their own container and projects are separated. Spinning up a new container is quick, and with a few scripts in place we can get a full environment ready in minutes, which saves a lot of time.
OVN networking and proxy devices are also pretty flexible once configured, so routing traffic and exposing services works fine. Overall it makes managing a multi tenant setup much easier without going full VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some parts still feel a bit rough in day to day use, especially around networking. OVN itself is fine, but ACLs can silently block traffic and it’s not always clear what went wrong. We spent a fair amount of time debugging things like SSH egress and basic connectivity issues.
Permissions with mounted directories can also be confusing. The UID mapping part isn’t very intuitive, so you end up manually fixing ownership on the host, and it’s easy to mess up if you’re not used to it. SELinux relabeling is another small thing that gets missed sometimes.
Port forwarding with proxy devices also feels a bit manual, especially when you have multiple containers. We ended up writing scripts to handle that and keep things consistent.
Once everything is set up it runs well, but getting there definitely requires some experience, it’s not something that works perfectly out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
