Preface

Intended Audience
Document Change History
Resources

The OpenStack Networking (neutron) project provides virtual networking services among devices managed by the OpenStack compute service.

This document describes the Networking (neutron) API v2.0 features.

We welcome feedback, comments, and bug reports at bugs.launchpad.net/Neutron.

Intended Audience

This guide is for software developers who create applications by using the Networking (neutron) API v2.0. To use this information, you should have a general understanding of the OpenStack Networking service, the OpenStack compute service, and the integration between the two. You should also have access to a plug-in that implements the Networking (neutron) API v2.0.

You should also be familiar with:

ReSTful web services
HTTP/1.1
JSON and XML data serialization formats

Document Change History

This version of the document replaces and obsoletes all previous versions. The following table describes the most recent changes:

Revision Date	Summary of Changes
December 20, 2013	Updated book to source information from WADL files.
October 11, 2013	Added the Networking API ports binding extension.
May 22, 2013	Updated the title of the book and project name to "OpenStack Networking." Updated the title of the book to Reference from Developer Guide for consistency.
March 23, 2013	Updated incorrect nova command examples in the section called “High-Level Task Flow”.
September 5, 2012	Removed XML as a valid request or response type.
August 17, 2012	First edition of this book.

Resources

Use the following resources in conjunction with this guide:

Resource	See
Related documents	OpenStack Documentation
OpenStack Neutron Wiki	http://wiki.openstack.org/Neutron

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