Joining more networking services
Besides the overwhelming routing and switching capabilities in Neutron that come with the latest OpenStack releases, Neutron enables cloud operators to offer additional networking services. Services such as load balancing, firewalls, and private networks support tenant networks to build well-architected application stacks for a variety of use cases. In the next section, we will cover the most used and stable additional Neutron services and deploy them, using kolla-ansible.
Load balancer as a service
Since the Liberty release, the Neutron Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) plugin has moved from version 1 to version 2, codenamed Octavia. Cloud users who seek to balance the load of their workloads using a managed load balancer will appreciate the Octavia offering. Octavia is designed to scale horizontally, as it creates and manages virtual machines acting as load-balancer instances, referred to as amphorae.
Octavia implements the same load-balancing...
