Book Image

Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

By : James Denton
Book Image

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)

Configuring Neutron services

The neutron-server service exposes the Neutron API to users and passes all calls to the configured Neutron plugins for processing. By default, Neutron is configured to listen for API calls on all configured addresses, as seen by the default bind_hosts option in the Neutron configuration file:

bind_host = 0.0.0.0 

As an additional security measure, it is possible to expose the API on the management or API network. To change the default value, update the bind_host value in the [DEFAULT] section of the Neutron configuration located at /etc/neutron/neutron.conf with the management address of the controller node. The deployment explained in this book will retain the default value.

Other configuration options that may require tweaking include the following:

  • core_plugin
  • service_plugins
  • dhcp_lease_duration
  • dns_domain

Some of these settings apply to all...