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Mastering OpenStack

Mastering OpenStack

By : Omar Khedher
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Mastering OpenStack

Mastering OpenStack

3.9 (8)
By: Omar Khedher

Overview of this book

This book is intended for system administrators, cloud engineers, and system architects who want to deploy a cloud based on OpenStack in a mid- to large-sized IT infrastructure. If you have a fundamental understanding of cloud computing and OpenStack and want to expand your knowledge, then this book is an excellent checkpoint to move forward.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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8. Extending OpenStack – Advanced Networking Features and Deploying Multi-tier Applications
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The network topology


At first, choosing the right network setup can be challenging, especially in a large environment, when you consider different networks and node clusters. Generally, a good practice for a first successful step is to make it as simple as possible. Overengineering a network setup might bring more troubleshooting tasks while running in production rather than extending it. Thus, we will go for a simpler setup in two phases—the OpenStack network mode and the physical network topology.

The OpenStack network mode

We will proceed with our setup by using Neutron as the OpenStack network manager. We intend to take advantage of the several technologies that are offered by Neutron, which includes switching and routing first and load balancing the features later on. Basically, we aim to separate traffic for each tenant in a private network and enable the VM for each tenant to reach the default gateway of the router device that faces the public network. The former "per tenant routers...

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