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Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

By : James Denton
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Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

By: James Denton

Overview of this book

OpenStack Networking is a pluggable, scalable, and API-driven system to manage physical and virtual networking resources in an OpenStack-based cloud. Like other core OpenStack components, OpenStack Networking can be used by administrators and users to increase the value and maximize the use of existing datacenter resources. This third edition of Learning OpenStack Networking walks you through the installation of OpenStack and provides you with a foundation that can be used to build a scalable and production-ready OpenStack cloud. In the initial chapters, you will review the physical network requirements and architectures necessary for an OpenStack environment that provide core cloud functionality. Then, you’ll move through the installation of the new release of OpenStack using packages from the Ubuntu repository. An overview of Neutron networking foundational concepts, including networks, subnets, and ports will segue into advanced topics such as security groups, distributed virtual routers, virtual load balancers, and VLAN tagging within instances. By the end of this book, you will have built a network infrastructure for your cloud using OpenStack Neutron.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

As workloads for OpenStack-based clouds have evolved, so have the features provided by OpenStack Networking. VLAN-aware VMs, BGP speakers, and network availability zones are just a few of the advanced network features that have been introduced in Neutron over the last few release cycles and there are more to come in future releases. Used in tandem, these features can provide users with the ability to define rich network topologies and provide high-availability to a number of different applications and workloads in the cloud.

The release notes for OpenStack Networking are a great place to find information on recently released features as well as bug fixes for existing functions. To find the release notes for a given release, please visit the following URL: https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/neutron/index.html.