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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)

Networking of highly available routers

When a highly-available router is created, Neutron creates a VRRP group composed of at least two router namespaces by default. The namespaces are spread across multiple hosts running the Neutron L3 agent, and each runs the keepalived service with an automatically generated configuration. Traffic between the routers uses a dedicated network interface, which is discussed in the following section.

Dedicated HA network

Routers in a VRRP group communicate among one another over a dedicated HA network. An HA router is automatically configured with an interface prefixed with that is only used for this communication.

The first time an HA router is created in a project, Neutron configures a network...