OpenStack Networking Cookbook

Creating the Firewall policies

A Firewall policy is a grouping of the Firewall rules. We will now create a Firewall policy and add the Firewall rules that we created earlier. The order of the rules in a Firewall policy is important and a different ordering may give you a different result.

A Firewall policy may also be shared between tenants.

Getting ready

We will create the Firewall policy using Horizon. For this recipe, we will need the following information:

• The Firewall policy name
• The Firewall policy description
• Names of the Firewall rules to be added to the policy

How to do it…

The following steps will show you how to create a Firewall policy and add the Firewall rules to it:

1. Log in to Horizon with the appropriate credentials.
2. Navigate to Project