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You're reading from OpenStack Networking Essentials Build and manage networks in OpenStack using Neutron

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785283277

Length 174 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

James Denton

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. OpenStack Networking Components – an Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing OpenStack Using RDO

3. Neutron API Basics

4. Interfacing with Neutron

5. Switching

6. Routing

7. Building Networks and Routers

8. Security Group Fundamentals

A. Configuring VirtualBox

Index

System requirements

OpenStack components are intended to run on standard hardware that ranges from desktop machines to enterprise-grade servers. For optimal performance, the processors of the compute nodes should support virtualization extensions, such as Intel's VT-x or AMD's AMD-v technologies. When using virtualization software such as VirtualBox, it may not be possible to extend certain virtualization features to the virtual machines running inside the OpenStack cloud, which could result in degraded performance. For demonstration purposes, however, deploying in a virtual machine can offer a similar experience to deploying on hardware, but in a simplified manner.

OpenStack currently supports numerous Linux distributions, including CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu. This book assumes that the CentOS 7.1 Server operating system has been installed prior to the installation of OpenStack using RDO. You can download CentOS Server from...

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Authors (1)

James Denton

James Denton is a Principal Architect at Rackspace with over 15 years of experience in systems administration and networking. He has a bachelor's degree in Business Management with a focus on Computer Information Systems from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He is currently focused on OpenStack operations and support within the Rackspace Private Cloud team. James is the author of the Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron), first and second editions, as well as OpenStack Networking Essentials, both by Packt Publishing.

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