Bug 967965 - Document the creation and use of provider networks.
Summary: Document the creation and use of provider networks.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Installation_and_Configuration_Guide
Version: 3.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: 3.0
Assignee: Stephen Gordon
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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: 953395 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-05-28 16:54 UTC by Stephen Gordon
Modified: 2014-08-03 23:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: Red_Hat_OpenStack-Installation_and_Configuration_Guide-3-en-US-3-17
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-08-03 23:50:06 UTC
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Description Stephen Gordon 2013-05-28 16:54:24 UTC
>>> "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

Comment 1 Stephen Gordon 2013-06-04 15:32:07 UTC
*** Bug 953395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Stephen Gordon 2013-06-04 20:40:58 UTC
Added:
  10.1.3. OpenStack Networking API Extensions
  10.6.  Configuring a Provider Network

Updated:
  10.7.  Configuring the L3 Agent


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