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Re: Allocate specific floating IP to an instance

 

@Kiall, if it does, tell us more about it please.


On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm fairly confident that quantum is not a requirement for this.
>
> Nova's in-built networking supports exactly this since as long ago as I can
> remember.
>
> Thanks,
> Kiall
>
> On Oct 30, 2012 9:04 AM, "Emilien Macchi" <emilien@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Sebastien,
>>
>>
>> What you can do today is to choose manually which floating IP you need to
>> associate with a specific instance.
>> You need to run OpenStack Folsom + Quantum.
>>
>> First, you need to create Floating IP pool(s) from Quantum CLI, and after
>> that, the tenant is able to associate this IP to a private instance :
>>
>> quantum floatingip-create ext_net
>>
>> quantum floatingip-associate $FLOATING_ID $PORT_ID
>>
>> More informations about Networking configuration with Quantum CLI here :
>>
>> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/demo_logical_network_config.html
>>
>>
>> Cheers ;-)
>>
>>
>> Emilien Macchi
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>>
>> ________________________________
>> De: "Sébastien Han" <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>
>> À: "Openstack" <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Envoyé: Lundi 29 Octobre 2012 17:25:47
>> Objet: [Openstack] Allocate specific floating IP to an instance
>>
>> Hi Stacker,
>>
>> I know OpenStack is not designed that way and I don't think it's
>> possible (or maybe I misses something :)) but I was wondering if there
>> is any simple workaround to choose a specific floating IP to allocate.
>> In other words, don't give me a random or N+1 next floating IP
>> available but let me decide which floating IP I want to assign to my
>> instance. It doesn't make sense in a public cloud but it does for a
>> corporate/private cloud. It would be nice to have :)
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
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