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OpenStack Networking Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenStack Networking Cookbook Harness the power of OpenStack Networking for public and private clouds using 90 hands-on recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785286100
Length 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sriram Subramanian Sriram Subramanian
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Chandan Dutta Chandan Dutta
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with OpenStack Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Open vSwitch for VLAN-Based Networks 3. Exploring Other Network Types in Neutron 4. Exploring Overlay Networks with Neutron 5. Managing IP Addresses in Neutron 6. Using Routing Services in Neutron 7. Using Neutron Security and Firewall Services 8. Using HAProxy for Load Balancing 9. Monitoring OpenStack Networks 10. Writing Your Own Neutron ML2 Mechanism Driver 11. Troubleshooting Tips for Neutron 12. Advanced Topics Index

Creating the Firewall policies


A Firewall policy is a grouping of the Firewall rules. We will now create a Firewall policy and add the Firewall rules that we created earlier. The order of the rules in a Firewall policy is important and a different ordering may give you a different result.

A Firewall policy may also be shared between tenants.

Getting ready

We will create the Firewall policy using Horizon. For this recipe, we will need the following information:

  • The Firewall policy name

  • The Firewall policy description

  • Names of the Firewall rules to be added to the policy

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to create a Firewall policy and add the Firewall rules to it:

  1. Log in to Horizon with the appropriate credentials.

  2. Navigate to Project | Network | Firewalls and click on Firewall Policies.

  3. In the Add Policy menu, provide Policy Name and Description:

  4. In the Rules tab in the Add Policy menu, choose and add the Firewall rules in Available Rules to Selected Rules. Dragging them up or down...

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