Bug 967965
| Summary: | Document the creation and use of provider networks. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat OpenStack | Reporter: | Stephen Gordon <sgordon> |
| Component: | doc-Installation_and_Configuration_Guide | Assignee: | Stephen Gordon <sgordon> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | ecs-bugs |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | breeler, lpeer |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Documentation |
| Target Release: | 3.0 | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Red_Hat_OpenStack-Installation_and_Configuration_Guide-3-en-US-3-17 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2014-08-03 23:50:06 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** Bug 953395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Added: 10.1.3. OpenStack Networking API Extensions 10.6. Configuring a Provider Network Updated: 10.7. Configuring the L3 Agent |
>>> "It is recommended that users use a provider network rather than the L3 >>> agent to provide external network access until such time as network >>> namespaces support is available." >>> >>> Do we have documentation on using provider networks in Quantum already? >>> Or do we need more detail here? >>> >>> Bob? >> >> I know this is documented upstream, but I'm not sure if its covered in >> the RHOS documentation. > > That's a negative, is this still going to be desirable/required once we have namespaces support? Yes - definitely desirable, and maybe required. The same provider attributes are needed to use a provider external network with the l3-agent. With linuxbridge, this is the only way to define an external network, and I recommend it for openvswitch (in place of setting external_network_bridge = br-ex) as well. In general, I think we need to support both direct access to external networks (as provider networks that VMs connect to) and routed access to external networks (via l3-agent + provider network). -Bob