"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
–Malcolm X
The networking service in OpenStack has reached a level of extensibility allowing users and cloud administrators to build a variety of networking topologies, as well as to exploit more advanced network setups in a cloud environment. There are two different networking services in OpenStack:
- Nova-network: The legacy network solution taking part of the Nova compute component
- Neutron: A standalone network service that exposes overwhelming features and functionalities
In this chapter, we will focus on a Neutron project in an existing OpenStack environment and will go through its reference implementation to explore more features, including:
- The novelty of Neutron architecture and plugins
- Iteration through...