You have come across a cloud computing network fabric controller. It has identified
itself as "Quantum." It aims to tame your (cloud) networking!
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# -- Basics:
1) Quantum REST API: Quantum supports a REST-ful programmatic interface to manage your
2) Quantum Plugins: Quantum sports a plug-able architecture that allows Quantum's REST API
to be backed by various entities that can create a cloud-class virtual networking fabric.
The advantages of this plug-able architecture is two-folds:
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a) Allows for ANY open-source project or commercial vendor to write a Quantum plug-in.
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b) Allows Quantum users to not be tied down to a single Quantum implementation and
enables them to switch out a plug-in by simple editing a config file - plugins.ini
+# -- Dependencies
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+ The following python packages are required to run quantum. These can be installed using pip:
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+ eventlet>=0.9.12
+ nose
+ Paste
+ PasteDeploy
+ pep8==0.5.0
+ python-gflags
+ routes
+ simplejson
+ webob
+ webtest
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+1) Install easy_install (there is probably a distribution specific package for this)
+2) Install pip:
+ $ easy_install pip==dev
+3) Install packages with pip:
+ $ pip install <package name>
# -- Configuring Quantum plug-in
3) Update plug-in configuration by editing plugins.ini file and modify
"provider" property to point to the location of the Quantum plug-in.
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-4) Read the plugin specific README, this is usually found in the same
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+4) Read the plugin specific README, this is usually found in the same
directory as your Quantum plug-in, and follow configuration instructions.
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# -- Launching the Quantum Service
1) Start quantum using the following command [on the quantum service host]:
There are a few requirements to writing your own plugin:
-1) Your plugin should implement all methods defined in
+1) Your plugin should implement all methods defined in
../quantum/quantum/quantum_plugin_base.QuantumPluginBase class
2) Copy your Quantum plug-in over to the ../quantum/quantum/plugins/.. directory
4) Launch the Quantum Service, and your plug-in is configured and ready to manage
a Cloud Networking Fabric.
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