Chapter 11. Firewall as a Service
Neutron includes an advanced service known as Firewall as a Service, or FWaaS, which enables users to create and manage firewalls that provide layer 3 and layer 4 filtering at the perimeter of the network. Using the reference driver and Neutron API, users can:
- Apply firewall rules to the traffic entering and leaving the tenant networks attached to Neutron routers
- Create and share firewall policies that hold an ordered collection of the firewall rules
- Audit firewall rules and policies
The FWaaS extension introduces the following network resources:
- Firewall: A logical firewall resource that a tenant can instantiate and manage. A firewall is associated with a single firewall policy.
- Firewall policy: An ordered collection ...
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