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    OpenStack Networking Essentials
    OpenStack Networking Essentials
    OpenStack Networking Essentials
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    OpenStack Networking Essentials

    By Denton James

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    About This Book
    • Deploy an all-in-one cloud based on OpenStack Liberty (2015.2) using RDO
    • Learn the fundamentals of the Neutron API including networks, subnets, and ports, and how to manage these resources in the cloud
    • Build simple virtual network infrastructures in the cloud
    Who This Book Is For

    The book is for those who are new to OpenStack and Neutron and want to learn cloud networking fundamentals and get started with OpenStack networking. Prior networking experience and a virtual or physical server is recommended in order to follow along with the concepts demonstrated in the book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateApr 19, 2016
    ISBN9781785281235
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      OpenStack Networking Essentials - Denton James

      Table of Contents

      OpenStack Networking Essentials

      Credits

      About the Author

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      Why subscribe?

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. OpenStack Networking Components – an Overview

      Features of OpenStack Networking

      Switching

      Routing

      Advanced networking features

      Load balancing

      Firewalling

      Virtual private networks

      The OpenStack architecture

      A reference architecture

      Implementing the network

      Plugins and drivers

      Neutron agents

      The DHCP agent

      The metadata agent

      The network plugin agent

      Summary

      2. Installing OpenStack Using RDO

      System requirements

      The initial network configuration

      Example networks

      Interface configuration

      Connect to the host

      Initial steps

      Permissions

      Install network utilities

      Set the hostname

      Install Network Time Protocol (NTP)

      Disable NetworkManager

      Upgrade the system

      Install RDO using Packstack

      Download RDO

      Configure the answer file

      Install RDO

      Verify connectivity to OpenStack

      Verify connectivity to the dashboard

      Additional installation tasks

      Create a security group rule

      Create a demo project and user

      Configure the keystone_demo file

      Upload an image to Glance

      Summary

      3. Neutron API Basics

      Networks

      Network attributes

      Provider attributes

      Additional attributes

      Subnets

      Ports

      The Neutron workflow

      Booting an instance

      How the logical model is implemented

      Deleting an instance

      Summary

      4. Interfacing with Neutron

      Using the Horizon dashboard

      Managing resources within a project

      Creating networks within a project

      Viewing the network topology

      Managing resources as an administrator

      Using the Neutron client

      Creating and listing networks

      Creating a network

      Creating a subnet

      Summary

      5. Switching

      The basics of switching in OpenStack

      Using Linux bridges

      Using Open vSwitch

      Network types

      Local networks

      Flat networks

      VLAN networks

      VXLAN networks

      GRE networks

      A look at our environment

      Getting a closer look

      Summary

      6. Routing

      The basics of routing in Neutron

      Network namespaces

      Connectivity through a router

      Outbound connectivity

      Inbound connectivity

      Types of routers

      Standalone routers

      Highly available routers

      Distributed virtual routers

      Managing routers in the dashboard

      Creating routers within a project

      Viewing the network topology

      Managing routers as an administrator

      Managing routers with the Neutron client

      Creating and listing routers

      Creating a router

      Adding an interface

      Listing router interfaces

      Examining the routers

      Summary

      7. Building Networks and Routers

      Using provider networks

      Creating a provider network

      Booting an instance

      Accessing the instance

      Using a Neutron router

      External provider networks

      Attaching the router to an external provider network

      Booting an instance

      Testing connectivity

      Observing SNAT behavior

      Assigning a floating IP

      Testing connectivity via floating IP

      Multiple routers

      Advanced networking

      Summary

      8. Security Group Fundamentals

      Security groups in OpenStack

      Using security groups

      The default security group

      Managing security groups

      Using CIDR to control traffic

      Applying security groups to instances and ports

      Working with security groups in the dashboard

      Creating a security group

      Managing security group rules

      Applying security groups to instances

      Caveats

      Port security

      Allowed address pairs

      Disabling port security

      Summary

      A. Configuring VirtualBox

      Configuring VirtualBox networking

      Configuring host-only networks

      Creating a virtual machine

      Configuring a virtual machine

      Installing the CentOS operating system

      Attaching the ISO to the virtual machine

      Starting the virtual machine

      Configuring virtual machine networking

      Accessing the virtual machine

      Configuring network interfaces

      Accessing a virtual machine over SSH

      Index

      OpenStack Networking Essentials

      OpenStack Networking Essentials

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      About the Author

      James Denton has more than 15 years of experience in system administration and networking and has been deploying, operating, and maintaining OpenStack clouds since late 2012. He is a Principal Architect at Rackspace, and prior to joining the Rackspace Private Cloud team, he spent 5 years as an enterprise network security engineer. James has a bachelor's degree in business management, with a focus on computer information systems, from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. In his spare time, James enjoys spending time with his wife and son and camping in the Texas hill country.

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      Preface

      OpenStack is an open source cloud operating system designed to control pools of compute, storage, and networking resources. This powerful system fosters rapid innovation while decreasing operational and capital costs. OpenStack has exploded in popularity in recent years, thanks to its features, flexibility, and overall maturity.

      In this book, we will explore the networking component of OpenStack, known as Neutron. Neutron provides an API for users to build virtual network resources such as switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls. We will walk through the installation of OpenStack using RDO and will look at the core components of the API, made up of networks, subnets, and ports. By the end of the book, you will have harnessed the power of OpenStack and Neutron to create and access virtual network resources of your own.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, OpenStack Networking Components – an Overview, provides an introduction to OpenStack Networking features, components, and the basic physical architectures required to support an OpenStack cloud.

      Chapter 2, Installing OpenStack Using RDO, provides instructions for installing the Liberty release of OpenStack using RDO on the CentOS 7.1 operating system.

      Chapter 3, Neutron API Basics, looks at the core components of the Neutron API, made up of networks, subnets, and ports, and how they're used to construct virtual networks.

      Chapter 4, Interfacing with Neutron, explores the use of the Horizon dashboard and the Neutron command-line client to interface with the Neutron API.

      Chapter 5, Switching, looks at how Neutron constructs and implements the virtual network infrastructure to enable the flow of traffic across the cloud.

      Chapter 6, Routing, discusses how Neutron implements virtual routers that provide routing between Neutron networks and the outside world using source network address translation and floating IPs.

      Chapter 7, Building Networks and Routers, covers basic virtual network architectures and showcases the traffic flow from client workstations to virtual machine instances via fixed and floating IPs.

      Chapter 8, Security Group Fundamentals, examines the use of Neutron security groups to secure instance traffic at the virtual switch port and walks you through creating and managing security groups and associated rules.

      Appendix, Configuring VirtualBox, is meant to assist with the setup of a virtual environment using VirtualBox so that many of the examples throughout the book can be followed.

      What you need for this book

      For this book, the following is required:

      Operating system:

      CentOS Linux 7.1

      Software:

      VirtualBox 5.0 or higher

      RDO (Liberty release)

      This book assumes a beginner-to-moderate level of networking experience and experience with Linux operating systems. While this book will walk you through a basic installation of OpenStack using RDO, little time will be spent on services other than Neutron as well as any configuration of OpenStack outside of what's available via the API. It will be helpful for you have a basic understanding of OpenStack and its components prior to reading this book.

      Internet connectivity is required to install OpenStack packages. An all-in-one OpenStack deployment will be performed on a single virtual machine within VirtualBox. CentOS must be installed prior

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