Installing Neutron – networking service

Neutron networking service is responsible for the creation and management of layer 2 networks, layer 3 subnets, routers, and services, such as firewalls, VPNs, and DNS. Neutron service is constructed of Neutron-server service, which serves the Neutron API and interacts with the Neutron components since we deploy controller-Neutron-compute layout that we need to install and configure neutron-server and Modular Layer 2 (ML2) plugin on the controller node. Then, we will configure layer 3, DHCP, and metadata services on the Neutron network node. We will configure the compute node to use Neutron networking services.

Getting ready

Before configuring Neutron services, we need to create a Database that will hold Neutron's ...

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