OpenStack Networking Cookbook

Chapter 7. Using Neutron Security and Firewall Services

In this chapter, we will look at the following recipes to create and manage the security rules with Neutron Security Groups and Firewalls:

• Creating a security group using Horizon
• Configuring the security group rules using Horizon
• Creating a security group using CLI
• Configuring the security group rules using CLI
• Securing the traffic between instances on the same Network
• Creating the security group rules to allow web traffic
• Configuring Neutron for the Firewall service
• Creating the Firewall rules
• Creating the Firewall policies
• Creating a Firewall
• Viewing and verifying the Firewall rules on the network node

Introduction

The OpenStack Neutron provides a comprehensive set of features to secure access to the ...