Openstack
Explain each of the following components:
- neutron-dhcp-agent
- neutron-l3-agent
- neutron-metering-agent
- neutron-*-agtent
- neutron-server
Difficulty: unrated
Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises
by Arie Bregman
Answer
- neutron-l3-agent - L3/NAT forwarding (provides external network access for VMs for example)
- neutron-dhcp-agent - DHCP services
- neutron-metering-agent - L3 traffic metering
- neutron-*-agtent - manages local vSwitch configuration on each compute (based on chosen plugin)
- neutron-server - exposes networking API and passes requests to other plugins if required