In this post, we are going take a quick look at how OpenStack does networking, along the process we are going to mention the important agents involved.
Welcome to the Software-Define Stack Series, this will be an extensive series, exploring the software-defined aspects behind OpenStack and digging deeper into the structure of OpenStack and its internal anatomy. Before I start to talk about OpenStack specifically, let me explain why this series is called the “Software-Defined” series. The term Software-Defined was first used to describe networks which follow these following patterns: What we will be looking at in this series is how OpenStack really applies the Software-Defined paradigms (i.