Before launching your first instance, you must create the necessary virtual network infrastructure to which the instance will connect, including the external network and tenant network. See . After creating this infrastructure, we recommend that you verify connectivity and resolve any issues before proceeding further.

The external network typically provides internet access for your instances. By default, this network only allows internet access from instances using Network Address Translation (NAT). You can enable internet access to individual instances using a floating IP address and suitable security group rules. The admin tenant owns this network because it provides external network access for multiple tenants. You must also enable sharing to allow access by those tenants. Perform these commands on the controller node. Source the admin tenant credentials: $ source admin-openrc.sh Create the network: $ neutron net-create ext-net --shared --router:external=True Like a physical network, a virtual network requires a subnet assigned to it. The external network shares the same subnet and gateway associated with the physical network connected to the external interface on the network node. You should specify an exclusive slice of this subnet for router and floating IP addresses to prevent interference with other devices on the external network. Replace FLOATING_IP_START and FLOATING_IP_END with the first and last IP addresses of the range that you want to allocate for floating IP addresses. Replace EXTERNAL_NETWORK_CIDR with the subnet associated with the physical network. Replace EXTERNAL_NETWORK_GATEWAY with the gateway associated with the physical network, typically the ".1" IP address. You should disable DHCP on this subnet because instances do not connect directly to the external network and floating IP addresses require manual assignment. Create the subnet: $ neutron subnet-create ext-net --name ext-subnet \ --allocation-pool start=FLOATING_IP_START,end=FLOATING_IP_END \ --disable-dhcp --gateway EXTERNAL_NETWORK_GATEWAY EXTERNAL_NETWORK_CIDR For example, using 203.0.113.0/24 with floating IP address range 203.0.113.101 to 203.0.113.200: $ neutron subnet-create ext-net --name ext-subnet \ --allocation-pool start=203.0.113.101,end=203.0.113.200 \ --disable-dhcp --gateway 203.0.113.1 203.0.113.0/24

The tenant network provides internal network access for instances. The architecture isolates this type of network from other tenants. The demo tenant owns this network because it only provides network access for instances within it. Perform these commands on the controller node. Source the demo tenant credentials: $ source demo-openrc.sh Create the network: $ neutron net-create demo-net Like the external network, your tenant network also requires a subnet attached to it. You can specify any valid subnet because the architecture isolates tenant networks. Replace TENANT_NETWORK_CIDR with the subnet you want to associate with the tenant network. Replace TENANT_NETWORK_GATEWAY with the gateway you want to associate with this network, typically the ".1" IP address. By default, this subnet will use DHCP so your instances can obtain IP addresses. Create the subnet: $ neutron subnet-create demo-net --name demo-subnet \ --gateway TENANT_NETWORK_GATEWAY TENANT_NETWORK_CIDR Example using 192.168.1.0/24: $ neutron subnet-create demo-net --name demo-subnet \ --gateway 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.0/24 A virtual router passes network traffic between two or more virtual networks. Each router requires one or more interfaces and/or gateways that provide access to specific networks. In this case, you will create a router and attach your tenant and external networks to it. Create the router: $ neutron router-create demo-router Attach the router to the demo tenant subnet: $ neutron router-interface-add demo-router demo-subnet Attach the router to the external network by setting it as the gateway: $ neutron router-gateway-set demo-router ext-net

We recommend that you verify network connectivity and resolve any issues before proceeding further. Following the external network subnet example using 203.0.113.0/24, the tenant router gateway should occupy the lowest IP address in the floating IP address range, 203.0.113.101. If you configured your external physical network and virtual networks correctly, you you should be able to ping this IP address from any host on your external physical network. If you are building your OpenStack nodes as virtual machines, you must configure the hypervisor to permit promiscuous mode on the external network. Ping the tenant router gateway: $ ping -c 4 203.0.113.101 PING 203.0.113.101 (203.0.113.101) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 203.0.113.101: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.619 ms 64 bytes from 203.0.113.101: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.189 ms 64 bytes from 203.0.113.101: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.165 ms 64 bytes from 203.0.113.101: icmp_req=4 ttl=64 time=0.216 ms --- 203.0.113.101 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.165/0.297/0.619/0.187 ms