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On 04/01/2016 12:00 PM, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> And with external rbac in mitaka, you can finally have private floating
> ip's. :)

Wha. I mean.

My face. It just fell off.

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> *From:* Monty Taylor
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 31, 2016 10:23:22 AM
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> *Subject:* [openstack-dev] Floating IPs and Public IPs are not equivalent
>
> Just a friendly reminder to everyone - floating IPs are not synonymous
> with Public IPs in OpenStack.
>
> The most common (and growing, thank you to the beta of the new
> Dreamcompute cloud) configuration for Public Clouds is directly assign
> public IPs to VMs without requiring a user to create a floating IP.
>
> I have heard that the require-floating-ip model is very common for
> private clouds. While I find that even stranger, as the need to run NAT
> inside of another NAT is bizarre, it is what it is.
>
> Both models are common enough that pretty much anything that wants to
> consume OpenStack VMs needs to account for both possibilities.
>
> It would be really great if we could get the default config in devstack
> to be to have a shared direct-attached network that can also have a
> router attached to it and provider floating ips, since that scenario
> actually allows interacting with both models (and is actually the most
> common config across the OpenStack public clouds)
>
> Monty
>
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