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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)

Initial network configuration

To understand how networking should initially be configured on each host, please refer to the following diagram:

Figure 2.1

In figure 2.1, three interfaces are cabled to each host. The eth0 interface will serve as the management interface for OpenStack services and API access while eth1 will be used for overlay network traffic between hosts. On the controller node, eth2 will be used for external network traffic to instances through Neutron routers. If VLAN tenant networks are used in lieu of overlay networks, then eth2 will be configured on the compute nodes to support those networks.

At a minimum, the management interface should be configured with an IP address that has outbound access to the internet. Internet access is required to download OpenStack packages from the Ubuntu package repository. Inbound access to the management address of the servers...