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Language Bindings¶

Bindings exist for Open vSwitch in a variety of languages.

Official Bindings¶

Python¶

The Python bindings are part of the Open vSwitch package. You can install the bindings using pip:

$ pip install ovs

The Python bindings include an optional flow parsing library. To install it’s required dependencies, run:

$ pip install ovs[flow]

or install python3-netaddr and python3-pyparsing.

Third-Party Bindings¶

Lua¶

  • LJIT2ovs: LuaJIT binding for Open vSwitch

Go¶

  • go-odp: A Go library to control the Open vSwitch in-kernel datapath
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