About Me
Hi, I'm Oliver! I'm an Enterprise Support Engineer at GitHub! Prior to GitHub I spent 7 years in the hosting industry, namely at Rackspace.
On my own time, I tinker with various things. I've got a homelab where I learn how to use new tools of the IT trades. Aside from this, I'm a hobbyist electrical engineer!
This blog is partially a dumping ground for my notes and thoughts, but I hope you'll find something useful!
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Deploying VLAN provider networks with Kolla-Ansible
Posted: 2025-04-12 15:00:00+02:00, Category: OpenStack
By default, Kolla deploys a flat physical network called physnet1. While this works if you're happy to put all your customers in one massive VLAN, you might occasionally need to allow these customers to use existing VLANs.
Attempting to add a VLAN-based provider network to physnet1 will result in an …