Some time ago, I learned How to create a overlay network using Open vSwitch in order to connect LXC containers. Digging in the topic of overlay networks, I saw that linux bridges had included VXLAN capabilities, and also saw how some people were using it to create overlay networks in a LAN. As an example, it is made in this way in the OpenStack linux bridges plugin. So I decided to work by hand in this topic (in order to better understand how OpenStack was working) and learned…

How to create overlay networks using Linux Bridges and VXLANs

Well, I do not know when OpenStack started to use overlay networks using Linux Bridges, but as I started to search for information on how to do it by hand, I realized that it is a widespread topic. As an example, I found this post from VMWare that is a must if…