What you need for this book

This book assumes a moderate level of networking experience, including experience with Linux networking configurations as well as physical switch and router configurations. While this book will walk the reader through a basic installation of OpenStack, little time will be spent on services other than Neutron. Therefore, it is important that the reader has a basic understanding of OpenStack and its general configuration prior to configuring OpenStack Networking.

In this book, the following software is required:

• Operating system
  • CentOS 6.5
• Software
  • OpenStack Havana

Internet connectivity will be required to install OpenStack packages and to make use of the example architectures in the book. While virtualization software, such as VMware or VirtualBox, can be used to simulate the servers and the network infrastructure, this book assumes that OpenStack will be installed on physical hardware and that a physical network infrastructure is in place.