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Extending OpenStack
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Extending OpenStack

by Omar Khedher
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Driving the sole plugin – ML2 under the hood

Prior to the Havana release, Neutron did not allow the integration of multiple core plugins at the same time. Thus, to extend the network layout and use third party software and hardware network features, cloud operators had to harden additional design customization in the existing OpenStack environment. That adds more complexity to distinguish which part of the core OpenStack network service would use which plugin.

From the code perspective, plugins are extensible Python classes that can be customized and written to integrate a specific network type and vendor device. A new plugin can be invoked through the Neutron APIs.

Most common used monolithic core plugins in Neutron are LinuxBridge, Open ...

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ISBN: 9781786465535