April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
We briefly discussed the OpenStack Networking service (Neutron) in Chapter 2, Exploring AWS Cloud. This service allows the creation and manipulation of virtual networks within the OpenStack environment. When a virtual machine instance is launched, it uses the networks governed by the networking service.
By default, an OpenStack installation provides two networks: public and private. However, your cloud application may require you to create several different networks for different virtual machine instances belonging to different groups. Let's see how we can manipulate networking functionalities using the Python SDK.