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OpenStack Networking Cookbook

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OpenStack Networking Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
OpenStack Networking Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating the Firewall policies


A Firewall policy is a grouping of the Firewall rules. We will now create a Firewall policy and add the Firewall rules that we created earlier. The order of the rules in a Firewall policy is important and a different ordering may give you a different result.

A Firewall policy may also be shared between tenants.

Getting ready

We will create the Firewall policy using Horizon. For this recipe, we will need the following information:

  • The Firewall policy name

  • The Firewall policy description

  • Names of the Firewall rules to be added to the policy

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to create a Firewall policy and add the Firewall rules to it:

  1. Log in to Horizon with the appropriate credentials.

  2. Navigate to Project | Network | Firewalls and click on Firewall Policies.

  3. In the Add Policy menu, provide Policy Name and Description:

  4. In the Rules tab in the Add Policy menu, choose and add the Firewall rules in Available Rules to Selected Rules. Dragging them up or down...