Virtual network management in OpenContrail

Let us now take a quick look at the process of creating a virtual network in OpenContrail and how it can be leveraged to provision a VM instance in OpenStack.

Creating virtual networks and VM instances

The steps given here will be important for understanding the service chaining concepts later in this chapter:

1. The first step in creating a virtual network (VN) is to click on the icon for Configure in the OpenContrail navigation bar, as highlighted previously. The following screen should be displayed:

   

2. Navigate to Networking | Networks and click on the + sign on the right-hand side of the screen. This will allow users to create a virtual network in OpenContrail.

3. Enter a name for the VN and in the Subnets tab, click on the + sign to add a subnet for this network, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

4. Once the network creation is successful, you will see the entry in the Networks table of OpenContrail, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

5. We can log...