OpenStack Networking Essentials

Additional installation tasks

Packstack does a lot of the heavy lifting, but before we can call the installation complete, there are some additional tasks that must be done to assist with the examples and exercises found in later chapters.

Create a security group rule

Before we can connect to the instances that will be created in later chapters, a security group rule must be added to allow that access. Chapter 8, Security Group Fundamentals, goes into some detail about security group usage and rule construction, but for now, we'll simply add a rule to the default security group to allow our connections to work.

Using the neutron security-group-rule-create command, create a security group rule in the default group that allows connections over the ...