Chapter 10. Writing Your Own Neutron ML2 Mechanism Driver
In this chapter, we will learn how to develop a custom ML2 mechanism driver for Neutron using the following recipes:
- Creating a basic ML2 mechanism driver
- Registering your ML2 mechanism driver with the Neutron server
- Processing API requests for a Network
- Processing API requests for a Subnet
- Processing API requests for a Port
Introduction
This chapter is targeted towards developers and we will use DevStack to develop the driver for the ML2 plugin. DevStack is a tool to install an all-in-one OpenStack node. DevStack also provides you with a development environment for OpenStack-related programming. Knowledge of the Python programming language is a prerequisite for this chapter.
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