6 Virtual Networking Overview

When building a private cloud, one of the first steps is to design and configure a virtual cloud network for your cloud resources. This chapter provides an overview of the components made available to you by the Networking service. Several of them are virtual versions of the traditional network components you might already be familiar with.

The sections in this chapter explain how the Networking service works and how you use it to design your virtual cloud network, connect it with your on-premises network, control traffic that flows through it, and so on. The detailed descriptions of typical network scenarios might provide a good starting point for your own configuration.