Service and component hierarchy¶

Overview and concepts¶

• Provides API, manages database, etc.

Overview and concepts¶

• Manages agents

Overview and concepts¶

• Provides layer 2/3 connectivity to instances
• Handles physical-virtual network transition
• Handles metadata, etc.

Layer 2 (Ethernet and Switching)¶

• Linux Bridge
  • Overview and concepts
• OVS
  • Overview and concepts

Layer 3 (IP and Routing)¶

• L3
  • Overview and concepts
• DHCP
  • Overview and concepts

Miscellaneous¶

• Metadata
  • Overview and concepts

Routing services¶

VPNaaS¶

The Virtual Private Network-as-a-Service (VPNaaS) is a neutron extension that introduces the VPN feature set.

LbaaS¶

The Load-Balancer-as-a-Service (LBaaS) API provisions and configures load balancers. The reference implementation is based on the HAProxy software load balancer.

FwaaS¶

The Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) API is an experimental API that enables early adopters and vendors to test their networking implementations.