The document outlines key aspects of OpenStack's networking and storage solutions, focusing on its Neutron architecture for managing networks and the features of Swift and Cinder for object and block storage, respectively. Neutron enables multi-tenant networks and provides functionalities such as load balancing and security groups, while Swift is a scalable object storage system, and Cinder manages block storage volumes. It also discusses architecture specifics, API roles, and the capabilities of various plugins, emphasizing the modularity and flexibility of the OpenStack environment.

1. OpenStack Workshop:
Networking and Storage
Affan Syed

2. Neutron Architecture in depth
Storage Solutions:
Swift
Cinder
2
Talk outline

3. N is for Networking

4. API to create virtual networks
Software defined!
Modular and multi-tenant arch (nova-network wasn’t)
API=service, implementation=vendor
Plugins make it technology agnostic
IPAM, load balancer, VPN …
Services provided by Network node
Neutron: Managing networks

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Neutron concepts
Network An isolated L2 network segment (similar to a VLAN) for a shared L2 domain
Subnet
A block of IP addresses and associated configuration state, like default GW and DHCP.
This is also known as the native IPAM (IP Address Management) provided by the
networking service for both tenant and provider networks.
Port
A port is a connection point for attaching a single device, such as the NIC of a virtual
server, to a virtual network. The port also describes the associated network
configuration, such as the MAC and IP addresses to be used on that port.
Provider Network OpenStack administrator creates provider networks. These networks map to existing
physical networks in the data center.
Security Groups A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your compute instances to control inbound
and outbound traffic. Security groups act at the port level, not the subnet level.
Therefore, each port in a subnet could be assigned to a different set of security groups.
http://docs.openstack.org/networking-guide/intro_os_networking_overview.htmld

6. What can users do with Neutron?
Create multi-tenant
networks with private IP
and overlapping space
Connect workloads to
each network
Interconnect networks
with routers
Provide external
connectivity (e.g.
Internet) to workloads

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Networking Architecture (reference architecture)
http://docs.openstack.org/security-guide/networking/architecture.html

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Neutron Plugin Architecture (Modularity and Complexity!)
Core (L2) Service Plugins
Plugins
Monolithic ML2 LBaaS FWaaS
Driver3Driver1 Driver2

9. Feature set
Scale
Performance
High Availability
Manageability
Network topology
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Plugin is …. Everything (and it matters!)
Source: Nir Yechiel, “OpenStack Networking with Neutron: What Plugin Should I Deploy?”

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Physical Service Placement (generic)
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Neutron Server
Core APIs API Extensions
Plugins
SDN Service
(e.g. PLUMgrid Directors)
Neutron
agent
Neutron
agent
Nova compute
VM VM
Controller Node
Compute Nodes
Neutron
agent
Nova-compute
VM VM
Network Node
(optional)
Internet

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Physical Service placement (Reference)
From http://docs.openstack.org/security-guide/networking/architecture.html
…focuses on a standard architecture that includes a cloud controller host, a network host, and a set of compute hypervisors for running VMs.
Each network has different
accessibility requirements!

12. Swift: Openstack’s Object
Storage

13. Object Store
Highly Scalable
Durable
Highly Concurrent,
eventually consistent
Open source
Runs on commodity
hardware 17
What is Swift?
But you can't:
mount it
have file hierarchies (?)
Store objects sized > 5GiB
(WIP)

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Swift API

15. Proxy service (Front-end proxy)
Back End (Back end)
Account service
Container service
Object service
Consistency service (Auditors and Replicators)
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Swift Processes

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Swift naming hierarchy
https://swift.example.com/v1/account/container/object
Source: https://swiftstack.com/openstack-swift/

17. Swift Architecture
Source: 6th meetup VietOpenstack
Frontend
Backend

18. Rings
Source: 6th meetup VietOpenstack
Swift Architecture

19. Zones
Source: 6th meetup VietOpenstack

20. Write
Source: 6th meetup VietOpenstack

21. Read
Source: 6th meetup VietOpenstack

22. Cinder: Block Storage

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Storage services: Comparison
docs.openstack.org

24. Block storage = your own volume/disks
Only and API with several reference implementation
Much like a Remote File System (DFS)
implementation thus use NFS, Ceph, CIFS
A different storage view

25. Volumes attach to VM instances
Boot from volume
Volumes have a life-cycle independent of VM
instances
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Cinder

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Architectural view (HP hellion specific)
https://docs.hpcloud.com/commercial/GA1/1.1commercial.-vsa-overview.html
Default LVM, can be Ceph etc.

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Cinder workflow (reference architecture)
http://www.slideshare.net/avishaytraeger/cinder-havana

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