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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By : Dan Radez
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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By: Dan Radez

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a widely popular platform for cloud computing. Applications that are built for this platform are resilient to failure and convenient to scale. This book, an update to our extremely popular OpenStack Essentials (published in May 2015) will help you master not only the essential bits, but will also examine the new features of the latest OpenStack release - Mitaka; showcasing how to put them to work straight away. This book begins with the installation and demonstration of the architecture. This book will tech you the core 8 topics of OpenStack. They are Keystone for Identity Management, Glance for Image management, Neutron for network management, Nova for instance management, Cinder for Block storage, Swift for Object storage, Ceilometer for Telemetry and Heat for Orchestration. Further more you will learn about launching and configuring Docker containers and also about scaling them horizontally. You will also learn about monitoring and Troubleshooting OpenStack.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Web interface external network setup


Creating the external network can be completed through the web interface by performing the following steps:

  1. Start by logging in to the web interface as the Admin user to create the external network and subnet. Select the Networks submenu from the Admin menu and click on Create Network. Give the network a name, flag it as external and make sure that it is assigned to the service project. The default provider type configured by Triple-O is VXLAN. On the command line, this was taken care of for you; here, select VXLAN for the Provider Network Type and set the Segmentation ID to 1. This step is encapsulated in the following screenshot:

  2. Once you have created the network, select the network by its name from the list, as shown in the following screenshot, and click on Create Subnet:

  3. Fill out the form with the network information for the external pool of IP addresses. Make sure the correct gateway is specified. The following screenshot captures this step:

  4. Move to...