Explain Neutron in detail

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

One of the core component of OpenStack and a standalone project
- Neutron focused on delivering networking as a service
- With Neutron, users can set up networks in the cloud and configure and manage a variety of network services
- Neutron interacts with:
  - Keystone - authorize API calls
  - Nova - nova communicates with neutron to plug NICs into a network
  - Horizon - supports networking entities in the dashboard and also provides topology view which includes networking details