Chapter 6. Walking through a Networking deployment

This chapter covers

  • Network node prerequisites
  • Deploying OpenStack Networking core
  • Setting up OpenStack Networking ML2 plug-in
  • Configuring OpenStack Networking DHCP, Metadata, L3, and OVS agents

In chapter 5 you walked through the deployment of an OpenStack controller node, which provides the server-side management of OpenStack services. During the controller deployment, you made controller-side configurations for several OpenStack core services, including Networking, Compute, and Storage. We discussed the configurations for each core service in relation to the controller, but the services themselves weren’t covered in detail.

Chapters 6 through 8 will walk you through the deployment ...

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