openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_getstart_networking.xml
Sandro Tosi aef24a1847 Typos and spellings errors in common/ dir
This is another series of typo/spelling errors fixing, in particular for
common/ dir

Change-Id: I04c0d5b2fe7d72e120b82da9039d116ad4c802cc
Closes-Bug: #1356460
2014-08-14 10:42:15 +01:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="networking-service-overview">
<title>OpenStack Networking</title>
<para>OpenStack Networking allows you to create and
attach interface devices managed by other OpenStack services to
networks. Plug-ins can be implemented to accommodate different
networking equipment and software, providing flexibility to OpenStack
architecture and deployment.</para>
<para>It includes the following components:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><systemitem
class="service">neutron-server</systemitem></term>
<listitem><para>Accepts and routes API requests to the appropriate
OpenStack Networking plug-in for action.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>OpenStack Networking plug-ins and agents</term>
<listitem><para>Plugs and unplugs ports, creates networks or subnets,
and provides IP addressing. These plug-ins and agents differ
depending on the vendor and technologies used in the particular cloud.
OpenStack Networking ships with plug-ins and agents for Cisco
virtual and physical switches, NEC OpenFlow products, Open
vSwitch, Linux bridging, Ryu Network Operating System, and
the VMware NSX product.</para>
<para>The common agents are L3 (layer 3), DHCP (dynamic host IP
addressing), and a plug-in agent.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Messaging queue</term>
<listitem><para>Used by most OpenStack Networking installations to route
information between the neutron-server and various agents, as well as a
database to store networking state for particular
plug-ins.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>OpenStack Networking mainly interacts with OpenStack Compute to
provide networks and connectivity for its instances.</para>
</section>