Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

Creating an internal network

Within the admin project, create an internal network for instances. In this demonstration, a network will be created with the following attribute:

• Name: PROJECT_NET

The following screenshot demonstrates the resulting output of the openstack network create command:

Notice how Neutron automatically determined the network type, physical network, and segmentation ID for the network. Because the openstack network create command was executed without specific provider attributes, Neutron relied on the configuration found in the plugin configuration file to determine what type of network to create.

The following ...