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Dan Radez
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Dan Radez

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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Web interface external network setup


Creating the external network can be completed through the web interface by performing the following steps:

  1. Start by logging in to the web interface as the Admin user to create the external network and subnet. Select the Networks submenu from the Admin menu and click on Create Network. Give the network a name, flag it as external and make sure that it is assigned to the service project. The default provider type configured by Triple-O is VXLAN. On the command line, this was taken care of for you; here, select VXLAN for the Provider Network Type and set the Segmentation ID to 1. This step is encapsulated in the following screenshot:

  2. Once you have created the network, select the network by its name from the list, as shown in the following screenshot, and click on Create Subnet:

  3. Fill out the form with the network information for the external pool of IP addresses. Make sure the correct gateway is specified. The following screenshot captures this step:

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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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