This chapter is a bit more adventurous than we would like. We are working on cleanup and improvements to it. Like for the rest of the Installation Guide, feedback through bug reports and patches to improve it are welcome.

OpenStack Networking drivers range from software bridges to full control of certain switching hardware. This guide focuses on the Open vSwitch driver. However, the theories presented here are mostly applicable to other mechanisms, and the Networking chapter of the OpenStack Configuration Reference offers additional information. To prepare for installation, see . If you previously set up networking for your compute node by using nova-network, this configuration overrides those settings.