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Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron), Second Edition

You're reading from   Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron), Second Edition Wield the power of OpenStack Neutron networking to bring network infrastructure and capabilities to your cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287725
Length 462 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. Managing Security Groups 7. Creating Standalone Routers with Neutron 8. Router Redundancy Using VRRP 9. Distributed Virtual Routers 10. Load Balancing Traffic to Instances 11. Firewall as a Service 12. Virtual Private Network as a Service A. Additional Neutron Commands B. Virtualizing the Environment Index

Networking of highly available routers


When a highly available router is created, Neutron creates a VRRP group composed of at least two router namespaces by default. The namespaces are spread across multiple hosts running the Neutron L3 agent, and each runs the keepalived service with its respective configuration. Traffic between the routers uses a dedicated network interface, which is discussed in the following section.

A dedicated HA network

The routers in the VRRP group communicate among one another over a dedicated HA network and interface prefixed with ha. The default HA network, 169.254.192.0/18, is created automatically by Neutron the first time an HA router is created and utilizes the default tenant network type. Only one network is created per tenant, and it is used by all HA routers created by this tenant. If all HA routers in a tenant are deleted, the HA network will remain and be reused for all other HA routers that get created by the tenant in the future.

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