Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron) First Edition

All you need to get serious in networking coming from systems.If you are using or thinking to use OpenStack to deploy more than 10 servers, and would like to understand the networking component, Neutron, deeper than the web interface allows, this is the book for you.No need to know cisco or juniper commands, just recipes to turn visio network diagrams, with routers, lans, vlans, load balancers and subnets in to neutron commands. Perfect for automation! I found a good guide on deploy networking in a virtual data center, and the warning notes on some bugs or missing features in the openstack releases are also important to keep one out of the sandpits.The only drawback is that the releases covered are Havana and Icehouse, and the plugins are the openvswitch and linux bridge. No commercial plugins and no ML2. I don't think the reader will miss those; if you do, you have gone trough the level of the book already,But the advantage of this books is to get yourself up and running in a week, and that it does, at the price of being useful for 12 to 18 months, at most, giving the quick pace of OpnStack development. Five starts for the effort and dedication of the author to put together the useful information knowing that it will age quickly.By the way, if you happen to be in the Paris summit, and can get a copy of the book, do it. You will learn a lot and wont regret it.

Greetings;This is the 1st book dedicated to Networking in Openstack, that's why I have pre-ordered it as soon as I see it. Author is a real time development engineer in related area and it has advantages & dis-advantages.Advantages: Since he is Subject Matter Expert, he does not "BS", he presents his knowledge from practice, lab-implementation side.Dis-Advantages: Like in every engineer (including myself) who writes a technical document, Author has assumed reader is full aware what is going on behind the scenes; such as "Openflow rules within OVS", such as usage of Neutron L3 Agent may cause bottle neck for high bandwidth traffic and it is a single point of failure.I recommend this book to new beginners of Openstack to learn little bit more about Neutron and have a general idea about forthcoming fancy features...I am looking forward for 2nd Edition with wider & deeper coverage.Ps; Ready to pay more for more knowledge :-)

Great info.

This book is a great guide for working with OpenStack and Neutron. It gives you a much better understanding of how to untangle deploy the messy world of Neutron.

Really a complete guide. It is well written with clear and helpful examples throughout. You'll be building clouds in no time! Doin' the Neutron Dance!

Not explained well.

most of the links in the book do not work, so it is mostly useless and a big disappointment. I will be returning it.

Awesome book.

A really good deep-dive inside Neutron. I found the examples quite good. On several occasions, the author traces packets as they travel from instances, down to Linux bridges, into OVS then on to Neutron step by step. The book clarifies the roles of the various networking-related daemons (l3-agent, dhcp-agent, neutron-server, etc.) in a multi-node Openstack environment, and shows you which daemons run where, why that is the case, and how they all work together.

openstackはいろいろな部品からできているため、多くの参考書は概要や技術の触りだけを説明しているものがほとんどです。"Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron)"はNetworking serviceに特化しながらも、各コンポーネントをインストールするところから解説付きで説明しています。よくあるAll-In-Oneのインストールではなく、二台のサーバーにマニュアルインストールをしていく構成ですので、各ステップを消化していけばopenstackの動きがわかるようにできています。openstackを実際にハンズオンで試したい、というネットワーク技術者であれば非常に有意義な本です。neutron...各サービス（LBaaS, FWaaS）の説明とハンズオンその他コンポーネント...インストール手順の説明とハンズオン

それなりにneutronを知っていると全体が見渡せる。設定等を実際にしたい場合にとくに役立ちそう。仕組みの詳細をしりたい人には物足りないかも。例のスクリーンショットがみずらい。別途、ダウンロードできるとのことだが。あと、Havanaをベースにしているので、ちょっと古い。ml2の記述が少し。英語は平易。