Types of routers

Neutron routers act as the default gateway for connected tenant networks and provide outbound and inbound connectivity to the instances they service. Neutron provides three types of routers to users:

• Standalone

• Highly available

• Distributed

Routers can be created in both the Horizon dashboard and via the Neutron CLI. As an ordinary user, the type of router that is created via the API is predetermined, based on a combination of settings found in the Neutron server and L3 agent configuration files. Users with the admin role are free to define the type of router to be created using the router-create command, using the following flags:

--distributed {true | false}
--ha {true | false}

Neutron does not expose the router type to users via the API, even with the router-show command. Users with the admin role, however, can see those details. The Horizon dashboard limits all users, including administrative users, to the default router type specified in the configuration. This behavior may...