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LEARNING OPENSTACK NETWORKING (NEUTRON)

You're reading from   LEARNING OPENSTACK NETWORKING (NEUTRON) Architect and build a network infrastructure for your cloud using OpenStack Neutron networking

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783983308
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Preparing the Network for OpenStack FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing OpenStack 3. Installing Neutron 4. Building a Virtual Switching Infrastructure 5. Creating Networks with Neutron 6. Creating Routers with Neutron 7. Load Balancing Traffic in Neutron 8. Protecting Instances on the Network A. Additional Neutron Commands B. ML2 Configuration Index

Firewall-as-a-service


FWaaS is an extension for Neutron that provides users with the ability to deploy perimeter firewalls to protect their networks. The FWaaS extension enables you to do the following things:

  • Apply firewall rules on traffic entering and leaving tenant networks attached to Neutron routers

  • Create and share firewall policies that hold an ordered collection of the firewall rules

  • Audit firewall rules and policies

The FWaaS extension introduces the following network resources:

  • Firewall: This represents a logical firewall resource that a tenant can instantiate and manage. A firewall is associated with one firewall policy.

  • Firewall policy: This is an ordered collection of firewall rules that can be shared across tenants.

  • Firewall rule: This represents a collection of attributes, such as layer 4 ports and IP addresses, that define match criteria and perform an action to be taken on the matched data traffic.

Like security group rules, firewalls in Neutron utilize iptables to perform traffic...

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