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OpenStack Essentials. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462664
Pages 182 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dan Radez Dan Radez
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Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. RDO Installation 2. Identity Management 3. Image Management 4. Network Management 5. Instance Management 6. Block Storage 7. Object Storage 8. Telemetry 9. Orchestration 10. Docker 11. Scaling Horizontally 12. Monitoring 13. Troubleshooting Index

Open vSwitch configuration

By default, the RDO installation you ran back in Chapter 1, RDO Installation, installed Open vSwitch (OVS), and configured the Neutron Open vSwitch plugin for you. Open vSwitch is virtual networking software that allows you to create virtual switches on your nodes and ties the virtual switches on your nodes together by way of a configured transport. A configured transport is a defined method for the virtual switches to talk to each other. As traffic comes out of an instance, it travels through these connections between each of the virtual switches. There are three common methods for configuring OVS, which are explained here.

VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) is the most complex to set up. This is because the hardware switch that carries your traffic must be configured properly to carry the VLAN tagging that is assigned to the traffic. When the network traffic is traveling through one of the virtual networks, it is assigned a VLAN tag, which is basically a...

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Profile icon Dan Radez
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Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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