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Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition
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Learning OpenStack Networking - Third Edition

by James Denton
August 2018
Beginner
462 pages
12h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing Neutron packages

To install the Neutron API server, the DHCP and metadata agents, and the ML2 plugin on the controller, issue the following command:

    # apt install neutron-server neutron-dhcp-agent     neutron-metadata-agent neutron-plugin-ml2     python-neutronclient
The Neutron DHCP and metadata agents may not be required by all Mechanism drivers but are used when implementing the openvswitch and linuxbridge drivers.

On all other hosts, only the ML2 plugin is required at this time:

    # apt install neutron-plugin-ml2

On all nodes, update the [database] section of the Neutron configuration file at /etc/neutron/neutron.conf to use the proper MySQL database connection string based on the preceding values rather than the default value:

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ISBN: 9781788392495