Networking in OpenStack lets users create and attach devices that are managed by other services to networks. Also, users can implement plugins in order to get different types of networking equipment. OpenStack networking is responsible for managing the virtual network infrastructure (VNI) and access layers of physical network infrastructure (PNI). Tenants in OpenStack Networking can create various topologies, such as firewalls, load balancers, and VPNs in the virtual network.
In this section, we will discuss installing and configuring the Compute service on the controller node.
We need to create database, credentials, and API endpoints so that we can install and configure the OpenStack Networking service. The steps are as follows:
Here are the steps to create a database.
Connect to the database server as root user using the following command:
mysql -u root –pCreate a new database named
neutronusing...