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Containers in OpenStack

You're reading from  Containers in OpenStack

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788394383
Pages 176 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Working with Containers 2. Working with Container Orchestration Engines 3. OpenStack Architecture 4. Containerization in OpenStack 5. Magnum – COE Management in OpenStack 6. Zun – Container Management in OpenStack 7. Kuryr – Container Plugin for OpenStack Networking 8. Murano – Containerized Application Deployment on OpenStack 9. Kolla – Containerized Deployment of OpenStack 10. Best Practices for Containers and OpenStack

Introduction to Neutron, the OpenStack network service


Neutron is network service for OpenStack which provides a variety of networking options in an OpenStack cloud. Its old name was Quantum and it was later renamed to Neutron. Neutron uses a vast array of plugins to provide different network configurations.

Neutron contains the following components:

  • Neutron server (neutron-server and neutron-*-plugin): The Neutron server handles incoming REST API requests. It communicates to the database using plugins
  • Plugin agent (neutron-*-agent): The plugin agent runs on each compute node to manage the local virtual switch (vswitch) configuration
  • DHCP agent (neutron-dhcp-agent): The DHCP agent provides DHCP services to tenant networks. This agent is responsible for maintaining all DHCP configurations
  • L3 agent (neutron-l3-agent): The L3 agent provides L3/NAT forwarding for the external network access of VMs on tenant networks
  • Network provider services (SDN server/services): This service provides additional...
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