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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With the Stein release we will remove support for FWaaS V1 [1]. It has been marked deprecated since Liberty (2015) and was an experimental API. It is being
replaced with FWaaS V2 [2] which has been available since the Newton release.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What is Neutron FWaaS?</span></b><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Firewall-as-a-Service is a neutron project which provides router (L3) and port (L2) firewalls to protect networks and vms. [3]</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What is Neutron FWaaS V1?</span></b><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">FWaaS V1 was the first implementation of Firewall-as-a-Service and focused on the router port. This implementation has been ported to FWaaS V2.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What is FWaaS V2?</span></b><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">FWaaS V2 extends Firewall-as-a-Service to any neutron port - thus offering the same functionality as Security Groups but with a richer API (e.g. deny/reject
traffic).</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Why is FWaaS V1 being removed?</span></b><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">FWaaS V1 has been deprecated since 2015 and with FWaaS V2 being released for several cycles it is time to remove FWaaS V1.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">How do I migrate?</span></b><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Existing firewall policies and rules need to be recreated with FWaaS V2. At this point we don’t offer an automated migration tool.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[1]
</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/network/v2/#fwaas-v1-0-deprecated-fw-firewalls-firewall-policies-firewall-rules"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/network/v2/#fwaas-v1-0-deprecated-fw-firewalls-firewall-policies-firewall-rules</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[2]
</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/network/v2/#fwaas-v2-0-current-fwaas-firewall-groups-firewall-policies-firewall-rules"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/network/v2/#fwaas-v2-0-current-fwaas-firewall-groups-firewall-policies-firewall-rules</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wkym4BeM4M</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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