While OpenContrail is a powerful SDN solution by itself, it is designed to work seamlessly with the OpenStack cloud platform. OpenContrail not only integrates with Neutron using a plugin, but it also relies on other OpenStack services, such as Keystone, Glance, and Nova. First, we will show you how to integrate OpenStack with OpenContrail. We will then show you the interaction with various OpenStack services.
In Chapter 7, Getting Started with OpenContrail, we showed the steps to install OpenContrail directly from the source code. In order to learn OpenContrail integration with OpenStack, we will use DevStack to perform the OpenStack installation and configuration. DevStack is a set of scripts that installs OpenStack for learning, development, and experimentation. It is important to note that DevStack installation will be performed on the same setup where OpenContrail is already installed, as shown in Chapter 7, Getting Started...